ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,000, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Hangzhou AliCloud Feitian Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Method and apparatus for controlling flow entry" was invented by Shunmin Zhu (Hangzhou, China), Yisong Qiao (Hangzhou, China), Nianbing Yu (Hangzhou, China) and Zikang Chen (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This specification provides a method and an apparatus for controlling a flow entry. The method includes: receiving a data message sent by a user, and determining a target flow entry matched with the data message, where the target flow entry is one of at least one flow entry corresponding to a target vir...