US Patent Issued to Fortinet on Jan. 20 for "Optimization of communication between network devices using wireless redundancy" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,777, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Optimization of communication between network devices using wireless redundancy" was invented by Sharathraj Nayak (Karnataka, India) and Venkatesh Kannan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downstream wired port receives network packets over the at least one or more downstream wired port. An upstream routing table, responsive the failure of the at least one of the one or more upstream wired ports, in this embodiment, determines whether a valid route for the network packets exists over the upstream network device. The upstream routing table, res...