ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,800, issued on April 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Designated forwarder election method and device" was invented by Fei Xing (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A designated forwarder election method includes a first provider edge (PE) receiving a bandwidth notification message sent by another PE, where the first PE and the other PE are connected to a first customer edge (CE), and where the bandwidth notification message includes bandwidth information of a link between the other PE and the first CE. The first PE elects a DF from the first PE and the other PE based on the bandwidth informatio...