US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on March 17 for "In service software updates for standalone network devices" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,958, issued on March 17, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"In service software updates for standalone network devices" was invented by Chivukula Koundinya (Bangalore, India), Balaji Sankaran (Bangalore, India) and Sivakumar Murugan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain embodiments, a method includes stopping platform daemons of a standalone network device; creating an ISSU cache; storing forwarding information in the ISSU cache to freeze the forwarding information; installing an updated state database; storing the forwarding information from the ISSU cache in the update...