US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 14 for "Topology-driven interconversion of ring network configurations" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,860, issued on July 14, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Topology-driven interconversion of ring network configurations" was invented by Sanjay Kumar Hooda (Pleasanton, Calif.), Anand Krishnamurthy (San Jose, Calif.), Madhavan Kasthurirangan (Palo Alto, Calif.), Swati Garg (Cupertino, Calif.) and Ruchi Agrawal (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices provide network configuration provisioning wherein, based on topology of a ring network and an ordering of network devices, a network controller requests network devices of the ring network to provision configuration from a first laye...