ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,466, issued on March 24, was assigned to PENSANDO SYSTEMS INC. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Active-standby switchover in border gateway protocol (BGP) network using graceful attract community" was invented by Mukesh Moopath Velayudhan (Fremont, Calif.), Sanjay Thyamagundalu (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Vijay Srinivasan (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for active-standby switchover are disclosed. Embodiments of the present technology may include a method for operating a network with active and standby host nodes that involves transmitting a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) route advertisement message from the s...