US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on Aug. 12 for "VXLAN access authentication method and VTEP device" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,678, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"VXLAN access authentication method and VTEP device" was invented by Zhengquan Huang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A VXLAN access authentication method includes: An authentication point device receives a VXLAN authentication packet, where the VXLAN authentication packet is a VXLAN packet. The VXLAN authentication packet includes a VXLAN header and an authentication request sent by a terminal, the VXLAN header includes a first VNI, and the authentication request includes an authentication credential. The authentication point device obtai...