ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,496, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Loop detection method and apparatus" was invented by Jianhong Qin (Dongguan, China) and Liang Cheng (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A loop detection method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: A first node receives a packet from a second node through a first interface. A node segment identifier is encapsulated at an outer layer of the packet. The node segment identifier identifies a destination node. The first node determines, based on the node segment identifier, that an outbound interface for forwarding the packet is the fir...