ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,465, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Bit index explicit replication egress protection" was invented by Huaimo Chen (Bolton, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method implemented by a network node in a Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) domain is used to provide fast egress protection. The method includes receiving a type length value (TLV) structure that identifies a backup egress node for a destination network node and includes an entry that indicates whether a primary egress node and the backup egress node transmit a packet to a same customer edge (CE) or to different custo...