US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on April 1 for "Packet processing method and apparatus, network device, and storage medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,230, issued on April 1, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Packet processing method and apparatus, network device, and storage medium" was invented by Yaqun Xiao (Beijing) and Li Fan (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An identifier can indicate whether local protection is allowed is added to a packet. In a process in which a packet that carries a protection flag is transmitted along a primary path, if a node along the path determines that the primary path is faulty, but the protection flag indicates that local switching to a protection path is not allowed, the node along the path does not perform l...