US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on March 17 for "Hitless upgrade of a network device" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,953, issued on March 17, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Hitless upgrade of a network device" was invented by Shrish Mahishi (Bangalore, India), Ramesh Rajan (San Jose, Calif.), Vijay Paul (San Jose, Calif.), Sanjeev Anandrao Mahajan (Bangalore, India), Atit Jain (Bangalore, India) and Pramod Srinivasan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device obtains a data package associated with an in-service software update (ISSU) procedure and determines, based on the data package, that a control plane of the network device is to be rebooted to facilitate performance of the ISSU procedure. Th...