ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,074, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"System and method for abstracting an IGP zone" was invented by Huaimo Chen (Bolton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and methods for migrating a zone to a pseudo node are described herein including a method performed by a zone edge node. In an embodiment, the method includes receiving, by the zone edge node, an execution request to initiate migration from the zone to the pseudo node. The method also includes sending, by the zone edge node, at least one Hello packet to a zone external node adjacent to the zone edge node for req...