ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,761, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Route selection method and related device" was invented by Ka Zhang (Beijing), Bin Wang (Beijing), Juan Zheng (Nanjing, China), Li Fan (Beijing) and Sheng Fang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a route selection method and a related device. A control entity determines first metric information of a first segment routing (SR) path, generates a first border gateway protocol (BGP) update message including the first metric information, and sends the first BGP update message to an ingress node of the first SR path, whe...