ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,901, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for processing forwarding entry" was invented by Haiyan Chen (Wuhan, China), Wanhong Meng (Shenzhen, China), Yan Xu (Nanjing, China) and Kai Du (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for processing a forwarding entry are disclosed. The method for processing a forwarding entry includes: receiving an entry operation packet through a first data channel; parsing the entry operation packet to obtain forwarding entry operation information; and performing a target operation on a memory based on the forwardi...