US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on July 21 for "Hibernation wake mechanism on a stack of switches using stacking links" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,049, issued on July 21, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Houston).

"Hibernation wake mechanism on a stack of switches using stacking links" was invented by Sheau Shian Wong (Singapore), Hsu Htet (Singapore) and Mahendra Reddy Parlapalli (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for facilitating wake-up on a stack of network devices are provided. During operation, the system receives, by a commander device of the stack of network devices, a notification which indicates that the commander device is to wake up from a hibernation state. The commander device boots up in response to receiving t...