ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,461, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for configuring node" was invented by Rui Chen (Dongguan, China), Tushou Xie (Beijing) and Yin Jia (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method, after receiving a packet including first information, a server validates a configuration for a data node in a storage location identified by the first information. When the configuration for the data node fails to pass the validation, if the packet includes a first parameter, the server enables, based on the first parameter, a mode of outputting configuration informati...