The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2020
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Uma S. Chunduri, Fremont, CA (US);
Renwei Li, Fremont, CA (US);
Alvaro Retana, Raleigh, NC (US);
Alexander Clemm, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Lin Han, San Jose, CA (US);
Yingzhen Qu, San Jose, CA (US);
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Abstract
A method implemented by a network element (NE) in a network receiving, by the NE, an advertisement comprising preferred path route (PPR) information describing a path from an ingress NE to an egress NE in the network, the PPR information comprising a PPR identifier (PPR-ID) and an attribute associated with a resource to be reserved on the PPR, transmitting, by the NE, the advertisement comprising the PPR-ID and the attribute associated with the resource to be reserved on the PPR to another NE in the network, and updating, by the NE, a local forwarding database to include the PPR information in association with the egress NE in response to the NE being identified in the PPR information.