US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Nov. 3 for "Providing dual timeouts for packet forwarding control protocol" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,041, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Providing dual timeouts for packet forwarding control protocol" was invented by Cristina Radulescu-Banu (Lexington, Mass.) and John E. Ziegler (Westborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device, with a user plane and a control plane, may establish a resiliency timeout and an association timeout for a packet forwarding control protocol utilized by the network device, and may detect expiration of the resiliency timeout. The network device may signal control plane or user plane applications based on the expiration of the re...