ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,556, issued on July 21, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Houston).
"Network device upgrade based group priority" was invented by Manoj Gupta (Bangalore, India), Rupamjyoti Sarma Baruah (Bangalore, India) and Gorakhanath Kathare (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for identifying sets of network devices to which to deploy a software upgrade based on an importance to the network of each network device. For example, a network system obtains information identifying a number of instances of an application associated with network traffic forwarded by each network device of a p...