ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,880, issued on March 31, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Path identity allocation method, system, and apparatus, device, and storage medium" was invented by Kaiqiang Shen (Beijing), Yangyang Jia (Shenzhen, China) and Sheng Fang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A path identity allocation method, system, and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium are provided, and belong to the field of communication technologies. According to the method, a forwarding node on a path receives a PCEP packet, so that when determining that path identification information of the path is unavailable, the forwarding...