ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,990, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to New H3C Technologies Co. Ltd. (Zhejiang, China).

"Route notifying methods and electronic devices" was invented by Jinrong Ye (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides route notifying methods and electronic devices. In an embodiment, a first ASBR in a first AS carries an NLRI as well as a newly-added BIER Path Attribute in a UPDATE message and notifies them to a second AS. BIER information in the autonomous system is exchanged between the ASs in a cross-AS BIER scenario, and BIER route notifying between the ASs in the cross-AS BIER scenario is realized."

The patent w...