ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,501, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"MPLS message encapsulation method and apparatus, and storage medium and electronic apparatus" was invented by Yao Liu (Shenzhen, China) and Shaofu Peng (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure is an MPLS message encapsulation method. The method comprises: setting an MPLS manage header in a stack bottom structure of an MPLS label stack, where the MPLS manage header is located after a stack bottom label and prior to ancillary data; the MPLS manage header includes: a data type and offset length information o...