US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on Oct. 7 for "Next hop determining method and apparatus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,802, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Next hop determining method and apparatus" was invented by Jingrong Xie (Beijing), Heng Wang (Shenzhen, China), Fanghong Duan (Nanjing, China) and Gang Yan (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A next-hop determining method is applied to a BIER domain based on bit index forwarding routing, and includes: A third device obtains first BIER information of a first device, an attribute of the first device, second BIER information of a second device, and an attribute of the second device, where the first BIER information includes a BFR-id of an edge BF...