ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,315, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Method for improved layer 2 address acquisition" was invented by Donald E. Eastlake III (Apopka, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing self-assignment Layer 2 address acquisition implemented by a client device. The method includes the client device selecting a Media Access Control (MAC) address and generating an outgoing test message that includes a first hash token to test an availability of the selected MAC address. The first hash token includes a K generation hash (HK) value of a seed known only to the client device, wher...