US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Aug. 4 for "In-band edge-to-edge round-trip time measurement" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,065, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"In-band edge-to-edge round-trip time measurement" was invented by Haoyu Song (San Jose, Calif.), Linda Dunbar (Plano, Texas) and Kaippallimalil Mathew John (Carrollton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method implemented by a network edge node including adding a first header including a flags field and a data field including a first metadata to a first packet. The network edge node sets a first flag in the flags field of the first header to a first value to indicate that the first packet is a forward flow packet. The network edge node transmi...