US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Oct. 6 for "Identifying a loop in an external network" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,656, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Identifying a loop in an external network" was invented by Rajeev Jain (Bengaluru, India), Pravin Pitchaiappan (Bengaluru, India) and Rashmi V (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switch in a first network is provided. During operation, the switch can learn a media access control (MAC) address of a packet from a second network via a first port. The MAC address can be learned in association with an aggregate virtual local area network (VLAN) configured on the first network for traffic from the second network. The switch can ...