US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on Sept. 9 for "Method for detecting multicast service flow and related apparatus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,498, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method for detecting multicast service flow and related apparatus" was invented by Weidong Li (Beijing), Xiaofei Wang (Beijing), Naiwen Wei (Beijing), Tianran Zhou (Beijing) and Runsheng Han (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a multicast service flow includes receiving, by a first node, a multicast service flow from a multicast source; encapsulating, by the first node, an In-situ Flow Information Telemetry (IFIT) extension header into a data packet in the multicast service flow, where the IFIT extension header...