US Patent Issued to Fortinet on April 21 for "Automatic network error routing for downstream network hop errors" (New Hampshire Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,891, issued on April 21, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Automatic network error routing for downstream network hop errors" was invented by Krishna Nitin Mody (Concord, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A routing table of a network routing device is dynamically updated responsive to detecting a downstream error in a switch. The error can be identified by inspecting payloads appended to data packets received from downstream devices, to detect a deviation from the routing table. As a result, subsequent downstream packets use the alternative path to bypass the downstream error, until resolved."

The patent was fil...