US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Oct. 21 for "Identifying loop-origination points in an overlay network" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,167, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Identifying loop-origination points in an overlay network" was invented by Vinayak Joshi (Bangalore, India), Venkatavaradhan Devarajan (Bangalore, India) and Balaji Sankaran (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network management system (NMS) for provisioning and managing an overlay network is provided. During operation, the NMS can determine that a loop associated with a media access control (MAC) address is detected in the network. The NMS can probe a first switch in the loop by instructing the first switch to observe t...