US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Oct. 21 for "Method to support multiple uplinks failover between switch interfaces with port security" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,202, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Method to support multiple uplinks failover between switch interfaces with port security" was invented by Ke Xu (Beijing), Zhijun Ren (Beijing) and Chunfeng Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first switch port receives a first control packet, a header having a source media access control (MAC) address of a first MAC of a first interface of a sending device and a payload containing a second MAC of a second interface of the same sending device. The first and second interfaces form a bonded interface for failover purposes on t...