ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,473, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method, device, and system for implementing service path detection" was invented by Zuqing Li (Shenzhen, China), Pingwei Fan (Nanjing, China), Xun Hu (Nanjing, China) and Ping'an Yang (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a device, and a system for implementing service path detection are provided. The method is applied to an SRv6 network, and includes: A first network device generates a first packet based on IPv6 and sends the first packet to a second network device, where the first packet includes a first indication and identi...