ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,700, issued on June 24, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Load sharing method and apparatus, and chip" was invented by Liudong Xiong (Xi'an, China), Xiangang Zhang (Dongguan, China) and Chunzhi He (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a load sharing method and apparatus, and a chip, which are applicable to a scenario of a complex combination and hybrid procedure. When sending a data packet, a transmit end adds different values to a first field of the data packet for different flow types of data flows, to indicate a forwarding device to use different load sharing rule...