ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,737, issued on March 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Method and apparatus for packet wash in networks" was invented by Renwei Li (Fremont, Calif.), Kiran Makhijani (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Lijun Dong (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for communicating a data packet, the method includes receiving a data packet that supports a packet wash operation. The method determines whether the data packet can be forwarded along a network path towards a destination node without any modification. If the data packet cannot be forwarded along the network path towards the destination node without m...