US Patent Issued to ZTE on Nov. 11 for "Load balancing and OAM in service function chaining using multiprotocol label switching" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,470, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Load balancing and OAM in service function chaining using multiprotocol label switching" was invented by Gregory Mirsky (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Yao Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are devices, systems and methods for load balancing and operation, administration and maintenance (OAM) in service function chaining using the multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) forwarding plane. In some implementations, a packet processing method includes processing a network packet comprising a plurality of labels based on presence of an indicator label ...