US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on May 20 for "Method for forwarding packet in SRv6 service function chain, SFF, and SF device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,064, issued on May 20, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method for forwarding packet in SRv6 service function chain, SFF, and SF device" was invented by Yongkang Zhang (Nanjing, China) and Zhibo Hu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a method for forwarding a packet in an SRv6 service function chain, an SFF, and an SF device, and belongs to the field of communication technologies. In this application, an End.PT.SID is used to identify that the SFF forwards an SRv6 packet to the SF device without stripping an SRH. Based on the End.PT.SID, the SFF does not strip the SRH in t...