ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,778, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Packet processing method, apparatus, and system, and storage medium" was invented by Yawei Zhang (Beijing), Jianwu Hao (Beijing), Shuping Peng (Beijing) and Gang Yan (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packet processing method is disclosed. According to the method, a first network device receives a first packet sent by a second network device, where the first packet includes a first group identifier corresponding to a VPN on the second network device, a first source device corresponding to the first packet belongs to the VPN, and the first...