ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,983, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Service configuration method and apparatus" was invented by Wei Chen (Wuhan, China), Yu Zheng (Dongguan, China) and Yi Lin (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to example service configuration methods and example apparatuses. In one example method, a first optical transport network (OTN) device receives a first message from an optical line terminal (OLT) device, where the first message includes first address information of a service. The first OTN device determines, based on the first message, whether a first pat...