ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,313, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Service function chaining parallelism and diversions" was invented by Donald Eggleston Eastlake III (Apopka, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A service function chain (SFC) merging method implemented by a service function (SF) node. The SFC merging method includes receiving a plurality of diverted SFC packets; determining a set of matching diverted SFC packets from the plurality of diverted SFC packets; merging the set of matching diverted SFC packets into a merged SFC packet; and transmitting the merged SFC packet."
The patent was filed on...