ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,811, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Service traffic processing method and apparatus" was invented by Guangping Huang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a service traffic processing method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving service traffic of a service function chain (SFC) computing network; determining an atomic function identifier of the service traffic; determining, according to a pre-stored SFC forwarding table, a first atomic function instance corresponding to the atomic function identifier, wherein the SFC forwarding table comprises a mapping relationship betwe...