US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Aug. 5 for "Network device management" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,776, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Network device management" was invented by Hari Hara Prasad Muthulingam (Dublin, Calif.), Geetha Anandakrishnan (Freemont, Calif.), Saurabh Jain (Fremont, Calif.) and Neelesh Kumar (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for managing network devices by defining a service chain that includes a plurality of network devices, such that the service chain identifies a position of each network device with respect to other network devices. The techniques further detect a new network device becoming active on a network and iden...