MUMBAI, India, Nov. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617098015 A) filed by Cisco Technology, Inc. on August 13, 2026, for Topology-Driven Interconversion Of Ring Network Configurations.

Inventors include Hooda, Sanjay, Kumar; Krishnamurthy, Anand; Kasthurirangan, Madhavan; Garg, Swati; and Agrawal, Ruchi.

The application for the patent was published on October 30, 2026, under issue no. 44/2026.

Abstract: Methods and devices provide network configuration provisioning wherein, based on topology of a ring network and an ordering of network devices, a network controller requests network devices of the ring network to provision configuration from a first layer 2 network protocol to a second layer 2 netwo...