ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,671, issued on July 22, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Ka Zhang (Beijing) and Sheng Fang (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and apparatus are provided, so that packets of different services can be sent, based on a segment routing (SR) technology, on the same path specified by an SR policy. This addresses the significant limitation in the implementation of dual-stack reconstruction, and enhances communication efficiency. In the method, after receiving a first packet, a first network device forwards the first packet to a s...