US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Jan. 28 for "Hierarchical provisioning of network devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,540, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Hierarchical provisioning of network devices" was invented by Rajeev Kumar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sanjay Kumar Hooda (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Ramesh Chandra Yeevani-Srinivas (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automated techniques for converting network devices from a Layer 2 (L2) network into a Layer 3 (L3) network in a hierarchical manner are described herein. The network devices may be configured to boot such that their ports are in an initialization mode in which the ports are unable to transmit locally generated DHCP packets. When a netw...