US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on Nov. 18 for "Packet forwarding method, device, and system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,904, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Packet forwarding method, device, and system" was invented by Jingrong Xie (Beijing), Fanghong Duan (Nanjing, China) and Xuesong Geng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a packet forwarding method, device, and system. The method includes: A first network device obtains a first packet, where the first packet includes a multicast packet; the first network device determines a next-hop destination address DA of the multicast packet based on a source address SA and a first correspondence relationship, where the SA is use...