US Patent Issued to DELL PRODUCTS on May 20 for "Systems and methods to detecting the source of a topology change notice (TCN)" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,034, issued on May 20, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Systems and methods to detecting the source of a topology change notice (TCN)" was invented by Kannan Karuppiah (Fremont, Calif.), Senthil Kumar Ganesan (San Ramon, Calif.) and Udhaya Chandran Shanmugam (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When an event occurs in the network that affects an information handling system in the network, a topology change notice (TCN) may be propagated so that the network topology can be regenerated. However, currently, there is no mechanism to readily identify the source information handling system of the TCN. T...