ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,722, issued on July 28, was assigned to HUAWEI CLOUD COMPUTING TECHNOLGOIES Co. LTD. (Guizhou, China).

"Network traffic control method and related system" was invented by Zhaoyu Luo (Gui'an, China), Mian Guo (Dongguan, China), Jianbiao Li (Beijing) and Wei Deng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A firewall receives bypass traffic obtained by performing a copy operation on the network traffic, and detects a packet in the bypass traffic, to obtain a packet control message. The firewall control module receives the packet control message sent by the firewall, and performs a target operation such as forwarding, discarding, or bufferi...