US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on March 31 for "Systems and methods for stateless symmetric forwarding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,886, issued on March 31, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for stateless symmetric forwarding" was invented by Laxmikantha Reddy Ponnuru (San Ramon, Calif.), Samir Thoria (Saratoga, Calif.), Arul Murugan Manickam (San Jose, Calif.) and Ram Dular Singh (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system of one embodiment that provides stateless symmetric forwarding of packets in a computer network. The system includes a memory and a processor. The system is operable to determine a cluster state of a plurality of border routers in a cluster. The system is operable to communicate the ...