US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Oct. 7 for "Method to stabilize a ring during link flapping" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,768, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Method to stabilize a ring during link flapping" was invented by Christopher S. Murray (Boynton Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system monitors metrics relating to link flapping associated with a physical link in a ring network. Network management traffic is transported via a first VLAN and customer data traffic is transported via a second VLAN. The system maintains a signal fail state for the ring network based on the monitored metrics. If a first condition associated with the first VLAN is detected, the system disallows cu...