US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on May 27 for "Transferring verifiable address rights between devices of a data center (DC) network" (California, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,632, issued on May 27, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Transferring verifiable address rights between devices of a data center (DC) network" was invented by Ian James Wells (San Jose, Calif.) and Kyle Andrew Donald Mestery (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for transferring address rights (e.g., internet protocol address(es), media access control address(es), etc.) amongst devices in a data center network fabric. A data center (DC) authority (e.g., network controller and/or a service controller) of a data center network fabric may determine that a device in the network is to communic...