ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,539, issued on May 27, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Inter-compatible forwarding modes in network fabric overlays" was invented by Victor Manuel Moreno (Carlsbad, Calif.), Sanjay Kumar Hooda (Pleasanton, Calif.), Roberto Mitsuo Kobo (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Balaji Pitta Venkatachalapathy (San Ramon, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices configure edge nodes of a virtual network overlay to continuously forward data plane traffic flows between client devices of a common subnet over the course of at least some of the edge nodes being EF-configured. TF-configured edge nodes and EF-configur...