ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,581, issued on July 21, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Houston).

"Systems and methods for ensuring redundancy between relay agents" was invented by Jayadev H R (Bangalore, India), Kiran Kumar K (Bangalore, India) and Subramanya Sharma P K (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for ensuring consistency between redundant DHCP peers may include establishing, by a first relay agent over a TCP connection, a peer relationship with a second relay agent. The method may also include synchronizing, by the first relay agent, subscriber information with the second relay agent fo...