ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,027, issued on May 26, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method, device, and system" was invented by Yuechen Li (Dongguan, China), Hao Li (Shenzhen, China), Bin Xia (Dongguan, China), Feng Zeng (Boulogne Billancourt, France), Runfa Zhou (Shenzhen, China) and Xiaoshan Zhang (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method includes, after determining a node set including a node that supports segment routing, a controller may send a target segment identifier list to a source node, to instruct the source node to forward a packet of a target flow based on the target segmen...