ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,139, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Packet processing method, network device, and network system" was invented by Hongwei He (Nanjing, China) and Cheng Sheng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packet processing method, a network device, and a network system are provided, which are related to the field of communication technologies. According to the method, an intermediate node updates a source IP address of a packet based on an IP address that belongs to a local end in an endpoint IP address of a connection, and updates a destination IP address of the packet based on an IP...