ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,607, issued on June 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Tunnel keepalive method, network device, system, and storage medium" was invented by Chengguang Niu (Beijing), Zhouyi Yu (Beijing) and Hongtao Guo (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application disclose a tunnel keepalive method, a network device, a system, and a storage medium, and pertain to the field of communications technologies. In the embodiments of this application, before a failure occurs in communication between a UP device and a CP device, the UP device receives tunnel information synchronized by the CP device....