Patent ID: 11902156
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 23:
24. The network device according to claim 21, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to execute the programming instructions to cause the network device to:
divide the compressed segment identifier into a first part and a second part;
replace last Y bytes in the first part of the destination address of the packet with the first part of the compressed segment identifier to obtain a first part of the original segment identifier, wherein Y is a positive integer, and a length of the first part of the compressed segment identifier is Y bytes;
obtain a second part of the original segment identifier based on a correspondence between the second part of the compressed segment identifier and the second part of the original segment identifier; and
obtain the original segment identifier based on the first part of the original segment identifier and the second part of the original segment identifier.