US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on July 8 for "Transient loop prevention in ethernet virtual private network egress fast reroute" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,660, issued on July 8, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Transient loop prevention in ethernet virtual private network egress fast reroute" was invented by Jiang He (Beijing), Zhe Zhou (Beijing), Xianmin Li (Beijing) and Haifeng Qu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method by a network device functioning as a provider edge (PE) in an ethernet virtual private network (EVPN) to prevent transient loops between multi-home peer PEs. The method includes advertising a first EVPN label to one or more PEs that are multi-home peer PEs of the PE, advertising a second EVPN label to one or more PEs that ar...