US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 10 for "Proactive convergence of endpoint reachability in data centers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,478, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Proactive convergence of endpoint reachability in data centers" was invented by Shyam Nayan Kapadia (San Jose, Calif.), Roshan Lal (San Jose, Calif.) and Ayan Banerjee (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques and mechanisms to enable proactive convergence of endpoints in a network corresponding to virtual machine mobility scenarios. The techniques may be used individually or together to reduce convergence times and improve network security. The techniques may include proactively exchanging IP-MAC binding info...