ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,694, issued on July 22, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Allocating addresses from pools" was invented by Aniket J. Gawade (Fremont, Calif.), Sachchidanand Vaidya (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Yuvaraja Mariappan (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for creating isolated pools of external, failover, and/or floating IP addresses. In one example, this disclosure describes a method including creating a plurality of virtual networks, creating a plurality of pools of external IP addresses, detecting a request to instantiate an object that identifies a specific pool from the plural...