ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,436, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Interior gateway protocol flood minimization" was invented by Huaimo Chen (Bolton, Mass.) and Dean Cheng (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a mechanism for implementing link state flooding reduction (LSFR) in an Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) network. The mechanism includes receiving data indicating connectivity of a plurality of nodes in the network. A flooding topology is built based on the connectivity. This includes selecting one of the nodes as a root node, and building a tree of links connecting the root node ...