ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,176, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Load balancing method for multi-thread forwarding and related apparatus" was invented by Xiangjun Meng (Shenzhen, China), Yunjian Wang (Hangzhou, China), Lijun Li (Hangzhou, China), Chunhe Li (Hangzhou, China) and Dingke Xu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load balancing method for multi-thread forwarding includes determining a first thread and a second thread from a plurality of threads, where the plurality of threads are all used to process data packets in virtual network interface card queues, wherein a load of the first thre...