ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,669, issued on July 22, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Packet sending method, device, and system" was invented by Shuying Liu (Beijing), Sheng Fang (Beijing), Xiugang Wei (Beijing), Yaqun Xiao (Beijing), Fang Gao (Shenzhen, China), Guoqi Xu (Beijing) and Zhibo Hu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packet sending method and a related device are disclosed. The method includes: A network device obtains a first packet, where an internet protocol extension header of the first packet includes a first identifier, and the first identifier indicates a service requirement corresponding to the first pac...