ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,731, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Message forwarding method and apparatus, and storage medium and electronic device" was invented by Haisheng Wu (Shenzhen, China) and Chaofeng Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a packet forwarding method and apparatus, and a storage medium and an electronic device. The method includes: looking up an ingress label of a packet to be forwarded in a current label forwarding table corresponding to a current time slice or current topology in a case that the packet to be forwarded is acquired; looking up the ingress label in a target labe...