ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,237, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"System and method for determining flow specification rules for communication packets" was invented by Shuping Peng (Beijing), Sheng Fang (Beijing), Shunwan Zhuang (Beijing), Haibo Wang (Beijing) and Zhenbin Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, in which a first network device obtains a first service packet and a plurality of flow specification FlowSpec rule groups, where any FlowSpec rule group in the plurality of FlowSpec rule groups indicates a rule set for processing a service packet, and different FlowSpec rule groups correspo...