US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Aug. 11 for "VXLAN packet transmission method, network device, and system" (Chinese, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,777, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"VXLAN packet transmission method, network device, and system" was invented by Zhenbin Li (Beijing), Shaowei Liu (Leuven, Belgium), Shuanglong Chen (Beijing), Jun Li (Nanjing, China) and Haibo Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a VXLAN packet transmission method, a network device, and a system. After receiving a first packet, a first network device obtains a VNI corresponding to the first packet. The first network device encapsulates the VNI in an IPV6 header by encapsulating the IPV6 header in the first packet...