US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on May 5 for "Network traffic transmission based on next-next-hop indication" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,235, issued on May 5, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Houston).

"Network traffic transmission based on next-next-hop indication" was invented by Kevin Wang (Acton, Mass.) and Manish Gupta (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a network device may receive an indication of a next-next-hop of the network device and link quality information of the next-next-hop. The network device may transmit network traffic based on the indication of the next-next-hop and the link quality information of the next-next-hop."

The patent was filed on Dec. 8, 2023, under Application No. 18/533,352...