ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,490, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Beijing Volcano Engine Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Flow table aging method and device, computer apparatus and storage medium" was invented by Bin Wang (Beijing), Yaobao Wang (Beijing), Hongcan Fang (Beijing), Haixin Yu (Beijing), Shaoxing Li (Beijing) and Lizhong Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flow table aging method, a device, a computer apparatus and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: determining a to-be-released assigned flow identifier stored at a link head position in response to a number of assigned flow identifiers in the data linked list reaching a p...