US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on May 26 for "Adding network services to MPLS network" (American, Chinese, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,016, issued on May 26, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Adding network services to MPLS network" was invented by Haoyu Song (San Jose, Calif.), Zhenbin Li (Beijing), Tianran Zhou (Beijing), James N. Guichard (Hollis, N.H.), Stewart Frederick Bryant (Redhill, Great Britain) and Andrew G. Malis (Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods and devices (e.g., routers) that add network services to a multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) network. A method can include a network device of the MPLS network receiving a packet, the network device of the MPLS network modifying the pac...