ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,316, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Network performance parameter sending method, network performance calculation method, and network node" was invented by Cheng Li (Boulogne Billancourt, France) and Guoyi Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network performance parameter sending method includes: obtaining, by a first network node, a segment identifier of a second network node in a segment list of a packet, where the second network node is a next-hop segment node of the first network node on a forwarding path of the packet; and adding, by the first network node, a networ...