ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,422, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Route advertisement method and related device" was invented by Zhibo Hu (Beijing), Ka Zhang (Beijing) and Sheng Fang (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first network device obtains a first route, where the first route includes a first route prefix. The first network device advertises a second route, where the second route includes a subnet prefix and a path identifier, and a range of the subnet prefix includes a range of the first route prefix."
The patent was filed on Jan. 16, 2023, under Application No. 18/154,939.
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