US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on Feb. 18 for "Standby access gateway function signaling for a dynamic host configuration protocol" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,328, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Standby access gateway function signaling for a dynamic host configuration protocol" was invented by Venkatesh Padebettu (Bangalore, India) and Kiran Kumar K (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a first access gateway function (AGF) may receive, from a second AGF, a communication indicating at least one of a subscriber identity, session information, subscriber context, or session transport information associated with an active session between the second AGF and a client device. The first AGF device may detect that ...