US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on June 2 for "Bit index explicit replication traffic engineering egress protection" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,365, issued on June 2, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Bit index explicit replication traffic engineering egress protection" 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 Bit Index Explicit Replication Traffic Engineering (BIER-TE) domain is used to provide fast egress protection. The method includes receiving a type length value (TLV) structure that includes a bit position of a backup egress node for a primary egress node, generating an egress protection bit index forwarding table (EP-BIFT) including the backup path to the backup ...