US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on March 24 for "BIER packet forwarding method, device, and system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,477, issued on March 24, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"BIER packet forwarding method, device, and system" was invented by Jingrong Xie (Beijing), Fanghong Duan (Nanjing, China) and Xuesong Geng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first network device receives a BIER packet sent by a second network device. The BIER packet includes a data packet and a global VPN identifier, the global VPN identifier is for uniquely identifying, in a BIER domain, a VPN to which a source device of the data packet belongs, the global VPN identifier includes an identifier of the second network device and a first id...