ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,977, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Framework for BIER fast reroute" was invented by Huaimo Chen (Bolton, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method implemented by a network node in a BIER domain includes obtaining, by a control plane of the network node, an IP LFA from a FIB or RIB through a first interface, using, by the control plane of the network node, the IP LFA to build a BIFTe when the IP LFA is an expected type, accessing, by the control plane of the network node, a BIER network topology in an LSDB through a second interface, computing an LFA of the expected type, and u...