US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Feb. 4 for "Network protocol extension for 5G edge computing services" (Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,005, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Network protocol extension for 5G edge computing services" was invented by Linda Dunbar (Plano, Texas) and Huaimo Chen (Bolton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method used by an egress router is disclosed. The egress router obtains a capacity index of an application server attached to the egress router. The egress router further obtains a load index describing a load measurement between the egress router and the application server during a certain time period. The egress router encodes the capacity index and the load index into a packet. The...