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Patent No.:

US 12542690 B1

Date of Patent:

Feb. 03, 2026

Filed:

Jun. 04, 2021

Message header processing method and apparatus, storage medium and electronic device

Applicant:

Zte Corporation, Shenzhen, CN;

Inventors:

Xiaolong Zhu, Shenzhen, CN;

Zheng Zhang, Shenzhen, CN;

Jun Feng, Shenzhen, CN;

Yong Chen, Shenzhen, CN;

Rusheng MA, Shenzhen, CN;

Assignee:

ZTE CORPORATION, Shenzhen, CN;

Attorney:

CANTOR COLBURN LLP

Primary Examiner:

Chirag G Shah

Assistant Examiner:

Benjamin Peter Welte

Int. Cl.

CPC ...

H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 45/00 (2022.01); H04L 45/745 (2022.01);

U.S. Cl.

CPC ...

H04L 12/1886 (2013.01); H04L 45/72 (2013.01); H04L 45/745 (2013.01); H04L 2212/00 (2013.01);

Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for processing a message header, a storage medium, and an electronic apparatus. The method comprises: processing fields in an IPv6 message header according to fields in a Bit Indexed Explicit Replication (BIER) message header by using at least one of the following manners: the BIER message header is taken as a type of a Routing extension header of the IPv6 message header, and a Segments Left field in the IPv6 message header is processed according to a predefined manner; the BIER message header is taken as a type of other extension headers of the IPv6 message header, wherein the types of the other extension headers include a new option as a Hop-by-Hop extension header; a Bit-Forwarding Router Prefix (BFR-Prefix) of the BIER message header is filled in a Source Address (SA) field of the IPv6 message header; and a Bit Index Forwarding Table Index (BIFT-ID) field in the BIER message header is embedded into a target field of the IPv6 message header. The method solves the problems in the related art such as optimization cannot be effectively achieved in a process of combined encapsulation of a BIER message and an IPv6 message.

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