ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,896, issued on April 21, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Houston).
"Disabling link for length of time" was invented by Sandip Kumar Ghosh (Bangalore, India) and Erin C. Macneil (Carp, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a network device may transmit, based on a time window, a request to disable a link for a candidate length of time. The network device may receive, based on the candidate length of time, an indication to disable the link for a length of time. The network device may power off one or more components associated with the link based on the indication to disable the link...