ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,458, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Packet processing method, apparatus, and system" was invented by Jie Dong (Beijing) and Haibo Wang (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packet processing method includes a first device that obtains a forwarding entry, where the forwarding entry includes a match entry and an action entry, and the match entry includes an identifier of one or more extension packet headers. The first device receives a first packet. The first device determines that the first packet includes an extension packet header that matches the match entry. The first devic...