US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Sept. 29 for "Network that handles conflicting locally administered addresses" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,337, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Network that handles conflicting locally administered addresses" was invented by Brian D. Hart (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Stephen M. Orr (Wallkill, N.Y.) and Venkataprasad Chirreddy (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes a system and method for deconflicting locally administered medium access control addresses (LAMAs). An apparatus includes a memory and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory. The processor receives a request for a client device to use a locally administered medium access control address...