ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,358, issued on July 1, was assigned to CELONA INC. (Campbell, Calif.).
"Method and apparatus for implementation and use of high availability clusters" was invented by Ravi Mulam (Campbell, Calif.), Keshav Sai Srinivas Nanduri (Campbell, Calif.), Hao Sun (Campbell, Calif.) and Vinay Anneboina (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A private network is disclosed as having an HA (high availability) cluster and a VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol) router for each of several nodes within the HA cluster. The VRPP router tracks each worker node in the cluster and provides a reliable service that run on the cluster of nodes. ...