US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 28 for "Fast recovery in layer 2 rings using selective replication" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,642, issued on July 28, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Fast recovery in layer 2 rings using selective replication" was invented by Saravanan M Karunanidhi (Bangalore, India) and Sonal Shah (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, fast recovery in layer 2 rings using selective replication is disclosed. A method includes configuring, at a ring node of a network ring, a lookup table of the ring node to point to both a first ring port and a second ring port of the ring node for remote addresses learned on either the first ring port or the second ring port and configuring, at the ring...