ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,058, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Information processing method, network device, storage medium, and program product" was invented by Zheng Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Haidong Zhu (Shenzhen, China) and Qiang Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing method, a network device, a storage medium, and a program product are disclosed. The information processing method may include: receiving a Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) flow flowing through a current node; and collecting statistics on the BIER flow to obtain node statistics information of the BIER flow."

The paten...