US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 29 for "Position aware load balancing in a ring network" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,410, issued on July 29, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Position aware load balancing in a ring network" was invented by Shruti Agarwal (Milpitas, Calif.) and Xiaoguang Jason Chen (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one or more embodiments of the disclosure, a supervisory networking device in an Ethernet ring obtains identity information for each of a plurality of other networking devices in the Ethernet ring. The supervisory networking device determines, based on the identity information, a relative position for each of the plurality of other networking devices in the Ethernet rin...