ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,101, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Packet detection method, connectivity negotiation relationship establishment method, and related device" was invented by Guoliang Liu (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packet detection method includes a first provider edge (PE) that sends a detection packet to a second PE, where the detection packet is used to enable the second PE to generate a response packet, and the detection packet includes a bypass virtual extensible local area network (VXLAN) tunnel source Internet Protocol (IP) address; the first PE receives, through a bypa...