ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,956, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Ruckus IP Holdings LLC (Claremont, N.C.).
"Methods and devices for automatically reestablishing media access control security sessions over wide area networks" was invented by Amit Paul (Bangalore, India) and Kiran Talluri (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first electronic device communicates over a wide area network by establishing a MACSec session with a second electronic device over the wide area network. The MACSec session is thereafter torn down in response to the first electronic device sensing a fault in the MACSec session. Then, one or more keep alive probes are transmi...