US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on May 27 for "BGP route identification method, apparatus, and device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,526, issued on May 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"BGP route identification method, apparatus, and device" was invented by Shunwan Zhuang (Beijing), Haibo Wang (Beijing), Yunan Gu (Beijing), Gang Yan (Beijing) and Zhenbin Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A BGP route identification method and apparatus are provided. A network device obtains a BGP route. The BGP route includes an autonomous system path attribute AS_PATH attribute, the AS_PATH attribute includes a first autonomous system number AS number, an AS number corresponding to an autonomous system that the network device is located ...