US Patent Issued to Alpha Networks on Aug. 12 for "Routing information management method for a layer-3 switch, and system implementing the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,781, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Alpha Networks Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Routing information management method for a layer-3 switch, and system implementing the same" was invented by Gang Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Xiao Ming Li (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Liang Bing Cao (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A routing information management method adapted for a layer-3 switch is proposed. For each ARP entry in an ARP table, a processor assigns to the ARP entry an aging reference parameter that is identical to a quantity of those routing entries in an IP routing table whose next hop IP addresses are identical to the IP address ...