US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Sept. 30 for "Identifying source of layer-2 loop in ring network" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,089, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Identifying source of layer-2 loop in ring network" was invented by Christopher S. Murray (Boynton Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for identifying the source of a loop in a ring network is provided. During operation, the system receives a first message, which indicates the presence of a looped packet, from a network device of the ring network. The system receives a second message from a respective network device with an uplink to an external network. The second message can include traffic information associated wi...