US Patent Issued to ZTE on May 26 for "BIER message forwarding method and apparatus, and storage medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,014, issued on May 26, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"BIER message forwarding method and apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Benchong Xu (Shenzhen, China) and Zheng Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method and apparatus for forwarding a Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) packet, and a storage medium. The method may include: receiving a first BIER packet generated by a third node, wherein the first BIER packet comprises a first BIER packet header and a BIER segment list, the first BIER packet header comprises first node information, and the BIER segment list comprises sec...