ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,833, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Parsing component, packet parsing method, forwarding chip, and network device" was invented by Taixu Tian (Dongguan, China) and Wenliang Shen (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parsing component includes m parsing units. At least one parsing unit in them parsing units includes a fixed parsing module and a configurable parsing module. The fixed parsing module stores fixed protocol content. The configurable parsing module is configured to configure protocol content in the configurable parsing module based on obtained content configurati...