ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,123, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for looking up forwarding table, storage medium, and electronic device" was invented by Ye Shu (Shenzhen, China) and Yubao Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for looking up a forwarding table includes: controlling a VRF table to be registered to an EVPN, such that the EVPN generates a RT5 route corresponding to a service route, wherein the RT5 route carries an IP prefix Prefix1; in a case of detecting that an IP address of a next hop of the service route is IP1, determining a MAC address M1, which is obtained by perform...