ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,885, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Fault detection method, apparatus, and system" was invented by Tao Qin (Beijing) and Yang Huang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a fault detection method, an apparatus, and a system. The method includes: A transmit end apparatus includes, when sending a border gateway protocol BGP message used for advertising a route, a bidirectional forwarding detection discriminator BFD discriminator configured by the transmit end apparatus, to trigger a receive end apparatus to automatically create an SBFD session used for detec...