ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,093, issued on June 17, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Orchestrated reconnect for client-unaware rolling of network nodes" was invented by Pankaj Chitrigi Ganesh (Arlington, Mass.), Kyle Andrew Donald Mestery (Woodbury, Minn.), Danxiang Li (Arlington, Mass.), Rahim Lalani (Vancouver, Canada) and Andrzej Konrad Kielbasinski (Grafton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for the transparent rolling of nodes in a cloud-delivered headend service without disrupting client traffic or making users aware of the various nodes in the system being rolled are described herein. The techniques may include rec...