US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on Oct. 21 for "Method for expanding PCIe system, PCIe switching device, and PCIe system" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,187, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method for expanding PCIe system, PCIe switching device, and PCIe system" was invented by Xingqiang Liu (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A PCIe switching device includes an upstream port, a port agent apparatus, and a plurality of first downstream ports. The upstream port is connected to the port agent apparatus, which is connected to the plurality of first downstream ports. Each first downstream port is configured to connect to a PCIe endpoint device. Links between the plurality of first downstream ports and PCIe endpoint devices ...