US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Dec. 2 for "Multiple network interfacing" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,656, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multiple network interfacing" was invented by Samir D Thoria (Saratoga, Calif.), Ali Sajassi (Alamo, Calif.), Rajesh Sharma (San Jose, Calif.), Kesavan Thiruvenkatasamy (San jose, Calif.), Aparna Pattekar (San Jose, Calif.), Lukas Krattiger (The Woodlands, Texas) and Neeraj Malhotra (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for enabling interoperability between asymmetric and symmetric Integrated Routing and Bridging (IRB) modes. An interfacing component may be configured to receive a first route advertisement...