US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Aug. 5 for "Techniques for providing role status conflict resolution with EVPN multi-homing" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,808, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Techniques for providing role status conflict resolution with EVPN multi-homing" was invented by Chuanfa Wang (Ontario, Canada) and Ali Sajassi (Alamo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for resolving conflicts in role statuses assigned to a customer edge device by multiple provider edge devices in communication with that customer edge device. In embodiments, such techniques may involve receiving information about a customer edge device in communication with the first provider edge device and storing, based on the infor...