US Patent Issued to Xiamen University on Oct. 28 for "Distributed data plane verification method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,162, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Xiamen University (Xiamen, China).

"Distributed data plane verification method" was invented by Qiao Xiang (Fujian, China), Chenyang Huang (Fujian, China), Ridi Wen (Fujian, China) and Jiwu Shu (Fujian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a distributed data plane verification method. The method includes: receiving a data plane verification requirement, a network topology and device-internet protocol (IP) prefix mapping information by a verification planner; generating a directed acyclic network graph DVNet by the verification planner on the basis of the data plane verificatio...