US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on Nov. 4 for "Method and apparatus for managing a packet received at a switch" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,915, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for managing a packet received at a switch" was invented by Xiaolong Zheng (Toronto), Xingjun Chu (North York, Canada) and Yashar Ganjali (North York, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a network device are provided for transferring data packets to a port according to the priority of the packets and, when a packet is dropped, providing, to the sender of the packets, an early notification that the packet was dropped. The priority of a packet can be determined according to data contained in the packet, e.g., an o...