ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,712,807, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Information flooding method and device" was invented by Yali Wang (Beijing), Zhibo Hu (Beijing) and Gang Yan (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information flooding method and a device, to flexibly manage flooding information of an interior gateway protocol (IGP) instance, adapt to flooding requirements in different scenarios, improve flooding efficiency, save network resources, and improve flooding information processing efficiency. The method includes: a first network device obtains a flooding information set, where the flooding inform...