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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2017
Applicant:
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Inventor:
Lucy Yong, Georgetown, TX (US);
Assignee:
HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Shenzhen, CN;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/02 (2022.01); H04L 45/50 (2022.01); H04L 45/00 (2022.01); H04L 47/33 (2022.01); H04L 49/354 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/502 (2013.01); H04L 45/04 (2013.01); H04L 45/50 (2013.01); H04L 45/68 (2013.01); H04L 47/33 (2013.01); H04L 49/354 (2013.01);
Abstract
A network apparatus comprising a trunk end point associated with an Ethernet-tree (E-Tree) service in a network domain and configured to forward a frame that comprises a tag according to the tag in the frame, wherein the tag in the frame is a root tag that indicates a root source of the frame or a leaf tag that indicates a leaf source of the frame, and wherein the trunk end point is coupled to a second end point associated with the E-tree service outside the network domain.