US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Oct. 27 for "Border gateway protocol (BGP)-shortest path first (SPF) flooding reduction" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,980, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Border gateway protocol (BGP)-shortest path first (SPF) flooding reduction" was invented by Huaimo Chen (Bolton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reducing flooding in a Border Gateway Protocol-Shortest Path First (BGP-SPF) domain implemented by a network node. The network node obtains a flooding topology (FT) of the BGP-SPF domain. When there is a link change, the network node transmits Network Layer Reachability Information (NLRI) in a BGP update message indicating the link change to network nodes that are directly connected to ...