US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Aug. 25 for "System and method for handling IGP flooding topology inconsistency" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,780, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"System and method for handling IGP flooding topology inconsistency" was invented by Huaimo Chen (Bolton, Mass.) and Dean Cheng (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network node (N1) for handling IGP flooding topology (FT) inconsistency by obtaining a new FT and setting a FT flag field (FT field) in a data packet (DP) to indicate whether a link between N1 and a second node (N2) is on the new FT. N1 transmits the DP to N2. N1 receives a second DP from N2 that includes the FT field set by N2 to indicate whether the link between the ne...