US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 21 for "Adjustable bit mask for high-speed native load balancing on a switch" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,598, issued on July 21, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Adjustable bit mask for high-speed native load balancing on a switch" was invented by Rajendra Kumar Thirumurthi (Cupertino, Calif.), Samar Sharma (San Jose, Calif.) and Mouli Vytla (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a network switch is configured to natively act as a high-speed load balancer. Numerous load-balancing techniques may be used, including one that bases the traffic "bucket" on a source IP address of an incoming packet. This particular technique provides a network administrator a powerful tool for shaping network...