ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,984, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Influencing of high availability switchover for SDWAN" was invented by Arul Murugan Manickam (San Jose, Calif.), Pritam Baruah (Fremont, Calif.), Sireesha Yeruva (Fremont, Calif.), Vishali Somaskanthan (Rajakilpakkam, India) and Michael Tracy (Petaluma, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a method includes determining, at a first node in an active state, a local wide area network (WAN) tunnel state of a WAN tunnel of the first node based on a forwarding table of the first node; determining, at the first node, a local direct internet ac...