US Patent Issued to FORTINET on Sept. 1 for "Use of backup heartbeat signal to mitigate split-brain conditions" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,400, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to FORTINET INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Use of backup heartbeat signal to mitigate split-brain conditions" was invented by Jinshan Gu (Burnaby, Canada), Yong Wang (Burnaby, Canada) and Frank Pan (Burnaby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches to using a backup heartbeat interface to detect and mitigate high availability (HA) split-brain conditions are described. Heartbeat packets from the primary appliance received via a regular heartbeat interface of the backup appliance and monitored the backup appliance to determine whether the connection with the primary appliance via the regular hea...