US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Jan. 20 for "Route information processing method and apparatus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,804, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Route information processing method and apparatus" was invented by Donglei Pang (Beijing) and Haibo Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application disclose a route information processing method and an apparatus, which may be used for a network device that supports a BGP protocol, to resolve a defect in an existing BGP SPF protocol. The network device may be a forwarding device, for example, a router or a switch. For example, in embodiments of this application, a priority attribute is introduced to route information t...