ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,058, issued on May 20, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Jiajia Dong (Beijing) and Zhibo Hu (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method includes a first network device obtaining a first route and a second route from a second network device. A first network segment corresponding to the first route is a subnet segment of a second network segment corresponding to the second route. The second route is an aggregated route, and the first route indicates that the first network segment is unreachable. The first network device switches a nex...