US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 17 for "Graceful removal of LACP member interfaces" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,473, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Graceful removal of LACP member interfaces" was invented by Ahamed Maideen Sadayan Abdul Hutha (Tracy, Calif.), Dhanaseker Kandhasamy (Saratoga, Calif.), Srinivas Pitta (Cupertino, Calif.) and Sudeshna Ghosh (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described herein for graceful insertion and removal of at a data link layer of an open systems interconnection model (OSI Model). In one aspect, the method comprises: establishing connections to at least two ports on a first side of a link to create a link aggregation group ma...