ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,606, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to HUAWEI CLOUD COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Guizhou, China).

"Packet processing system and method, machine-readable storage medium, and program product" was invented by Xuemin Wen (Beijing) and Shaofu Zuo (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "After receiving a packet, a programmable forwarding device determines whether a flow entry matching the packet exists in a local flow table of the programmable forwarding device. If the flow entry does not exist, the programmable forwarding device sends the packet to a computing device. After receiving the packet, a programmable network adapter in the ...