US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on April 14 for "Virtual internet protocol address associated with subscriber group" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,812, issued on April 14, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Virtual internet protocol address associated with subscriber group" was invented by Venkatesh Padebettu (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a network device may transmit an indication that a first access gateway function user plane (AGF-UP) device is associated with an active state for a subscriber group, an indication that a second AGF-UP device is associated with a backup state for the subscriber group, and an indication of a virtual internet protocol (IP) address associated with the subscriber group. The netw...