US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on May 26 for "Selective programming of forwarding hardware of a switch" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,022, issued on May 26, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Houston).

"Selective programming of forwarding hardware of a switch" was invented by Vinayak Joshi (Bangalore, India), Venkatavaradhan Devarajan (Bangalore, India), Rajib Majila (Bangalore, India) and Vijeesh Erankotte Panayamthatta (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for selectively programming the forwarding hardware of a switch is provided. During operation, the system can operate the switch as a tunnel endpoint of a tunnel in conjunction with a remote switch. The tunnel can facilitate a virtual private network (VPN). The system ...