ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,995, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Packet forwarding method and apparatus" was invented by Weiguo Hao (Nanjing, China), Yang Pan (Nanjing, China), Qingbo Yu (Nanjing, China), Jun Li (Nanjing, China) and Yanxiang Hou (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packet forwarding method and apparatus are described that pertain to the field of communication technologies. During selecting, from outbound interfaces of a plurality of forwarding chips, an outbound interface used for packet forwarding, a chassis-shaped device considers both: a role of the outbound interface (whether the outbou...