ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,311, issued on June 17, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Stateful media access control security switchover support" was invented by Sourav Basu (Hooghly, India), Tarun Jaswanth (Bangalore, India), Kaustav Majumdar (Bangalore, India) and Manish Singhvi (Jodhpur, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing a group of secured network devices. The method includes detecting, by a switchover agent operating in a secured network device of the group of secured network devices, a switchover between two supervisors operating in the secured network device, based on the detecting: generating a modified ...