US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Aug. 5 for "Detecting and communicating with silent hosts in software-defined networks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,809, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Detecting and communicating with silent hosts in software-defined networks" was invented by Satish Kondalam (Milpitas, Calif.), Sanjay Kumar Hooda (Pleasanton, Calif.), Prakash C. Jain (Fremont, Calif.) and Vikram Vikas Pendharkar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for discovering silent hosts in a software-defined network and directing traffic to the silent hosts in a scalable and targeted manner include determining interfaces of a fabric device that are connected to respective one or more endp...