US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 24 for "Weighted load balancing for multi-link operation" (American, Swiss, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,446, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Weighted load balancing for multi-link operation" was invented by Sachin D. Wakudkar (St-Sulpice, Switzerland), Jegan Manoharan (Bangalore, India) and Vishal S. Desai (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for weighted load balancing in multi-link operation (MLO) are provided. An announcement message from a second network device is received by a first network device, where the announcement message indicates a presence of the second network device within a network environment. Operational data of the second network device is collect...