ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,712,810, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Recursive bitstring structure addressing" was invented by Toerless Tobias Eckert (Addison, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multicast method performed by a network element includes receiving a packet that includes a payload and an addressing header with a recursive bitstring (RBS) structure. The RBS structure includes a recursive unit (RU) of the network element, comprising a forwarding bitstring field indicating one or more other network elements to which to forward the payload, and one or more additional RUs each comprising a forwarding b...