ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,411, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Fetching topologies using timestamp-callback map" was invented by Shekhar Satyanarayana (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein relate to fetching network device topologies using a timestamp-callback map. The timestamp-callback map includes timestamps paired with references to unique callback functions that fetch topologies for network devices when executed. Examples include setting an alarm for each timestamp in the timestamp-callback map. When an alarm generates a notification, examples create worke...