US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Oct. 27 for "Compact segment routing multicast for IPv6" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,928, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Compact segment routing multicast for IPv6" was invented by Huaimo Chen (Bolton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method implemented by an ingress network node in a segment routing (SR) multicast domain along a point-to-multipoint (P2MP) path. The method includes receiving a packet from a traffic source; encapsulating the packet with a segment routing header (SRH) that includes a sub-tree of the P2MP path through the SR multicast domain, where the sub-tree includes a reduced multicast segment identifier (rSID) for a link along the sub-tree;...