ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,582, issued on July 21, was assigned to New H3C Technologies Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Packet processing method and apparatus, and network device and medium" was invented by Hao Li (Beijing) and Changwang Lin (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method comprises: generating a first packet, wherein a source address in the first packet comprises a network segment, a host segment, and a slice segment that comprises a slice identifier; sending the first packet to a destination node, so that if the destination node, after receiving the first packet, determines according to the network segment and the host segment that the...