US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on July 15 for "Method for configuring media access control address aging time and apparatus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,033, issued on July 15, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method for configuring media access control address aging time and apparatus" was invented by Chunxia Sun (Beijing) and Yaokun Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for configuring a MAC address aging time, a first device generates a first Ethernet virtual private network EVPN protocol packet. The first EVPN protocol packet includes aging time information indicating a media access control (MAC) address aging time for an EVPN. The first device sends the first EVPN protocol packet to a second device. The second device configure...