US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 17 for "Telemetry assisted hybrid load balancing on switch fabric paths" (North Carolina, Massachusetts, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,481, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Telemetry assisted hybrid load balancing on switch fabric paths" was invented by Steven Michael Holl (Sarasota, Fla.), Jason Adam Kuhne (Hopkinton, Mass.), Gonzalo Salgueiro (Raleigh, N.C.) and Jason Michael Coleman (Hendersonville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein can use a hybrid load balancing approach to balance loads on paths in a switch fabric. The switch fabric can deliver synchronization data between processors in a multi-processor cluster, and the synchronization data can load the paths on which it is sent. First...