US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Oct. 14 for "Active tunnel selection for facilitating loop-free layer-2 traffic forwarding in an overlay network" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,325, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Active tunnel selection for facilitating loop-free layer-2 traffic forwarding in an overlay network" was invented by Rajeev Jain (Bangalore, India) and Venkatavaradhan Devarajan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for facilitating loop-free traffic forwarding is provided. During operation, the system can operate a switch as a tunnel endpoint for a plurality of tunnels with corresponding remote endpoints. The system can determine a tunnel network identifier (TNI) associated with a respective virtual local area netw...