ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,271, issued on June 16, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Data processing method and apparatus, and chip" was invented by Liudong Xiong (Xi'an, China), Xiangang Zhang (Dongguan, China) and Chunzhi He (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology of this application relates to a data processing method and apparatus, and a chip, to improve resource utilization. In one embodiment, a first field is added to a packet header at a protocol layer. The first field indicates which layer is an upper layer (or an inner layer) of the protocol layer. When data encapsulation or decapsulation is perfo...