ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,849, issued on June 23, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Systems and methods for optimized protocol aware dynamic control plane policing" was invented by Venkatesan Mahalingam (Pleasanton, Calif.), Senthil Kumar Ganesan (San Ramon, Calif.), Vinoth Kumar Arumugam (Fremont, Calif.) and Ashok Daparthi (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Control plane policing (CoPP) is a mechanism to police incoming traffic to the control plane for control plane protection and routing stability. Currently, networking switches are statically configured for CoPP limits in hardware/firmware. Such an approach of using a...