ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,985, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Route advertisement method, apparatus, and system" was invented by Zhibo Hu (Beijing), Guoqi Xu (Beijing), Yaqun Xiao (Beijing), Fang Gao (Shenzhen, China), Lei Bao (Nanjing, China), Sheng Fang (Beijing), Zhenxing Wang (Beijing), Pingan Yang (Nanjing, China) and Cuijun Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network system includes a first network device, a second network device, and a third network device. The first network device is configured to: obtain a first route advertisement message, where the first route advertisement message inc...