US 12,224,934 B2
Communication method and related device
Guangpeng Li, Beijing (CN); Sheng Jiang, Beijing (CN); Zhe Chen, Beijing (CN); and Taixin Li, Shenzhen (CN)
Assigned to Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed by HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Guangdong (CN)
Filed on Aug. 25, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/411,745.
Application 17/411,745 is a continuation of application No. PCT/CN2020/080314, filed on Mar. 20, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 201910229021.3 (CN), filed on Mar. 25, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0385162 A1, Dec. 9, 2021
Int. Cl. H04L 45/74 (2022.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 69/22 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 45/74 (2013.01) [H04L 12/28 (2013.01); H04L 69/22 (2013.01)] 26 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A communication method, wherein the method comprises:
determining, by a first in-domain device, an address length;
receiving, by the first in-domain device, a data packet;
extracting, by the first in-domain device, an address from the data packet based on the address length and a start location of a field of the address, wherein the start location of the field of the address is determined based on a flexible header encoding (FHE) field of the data packet, and wherein the FHE field comprises a plurality of bits, each of the plurality of bits corresponding to one of a plurality of header fields of the data packet and indicating whether a corresponding header field is carried in the data packet; and
forwarding, by the first in-domain device, the data packet based on the address.