US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on Feb. 3 for "Method for advertising topology information, method for collecting network topology, and device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,731, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method for advertising topology information, method for collecting network topology, and device" was invented by Wenyan Li (Beijing), Haibo Wang (Beijing), Lili Wang (Beijing) and Lei Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for advertising topology information and collecting a network topology comprises, when a topology is sent, both an intra-domain topology and an inter-domain topology carry a node identifier, and carry a same node identifier, such that a controller device automatically associates intra-domain topology information wit...