ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,203, issued on May 5, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"Network address assignment failover" was invented by Sanjay Kaniyoor Surendra Hegde (Bangalore, India), Isaac Theogaraj (Bangalore, India) and Ashutosh Nasikkar (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a first controller of a cluster of controllers provides a first controller network address assignment service for a first collection of client devices. The first controller detects a communication interruption with a second controller of the cluster of controllers, and determines whether a second controller network ...