US Patent Issued to ALPHA NETWORKS on July 14 for "Method for automatically changing a topology of a plurality of network switches" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,889, issued on July 14, was assigned to ALPHA NETWORKS INC. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method for automatically changing a topology of a plurality of network switches" was invented by Cheng-Hsien Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hsiu-Ching Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jian Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Daobing Tang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Qian Xu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatically changing a topology includes: activating a number (i) of network switches included in a stack, a last switch and first (i-1) network switches being included in the stack; deactivating one of the activated switches as a deactivated switch; decouplin...