US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on July 22 for "Dynamically detecting multihomed network devices and allocating protection group identifiers" (Austrian, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,662, issued on July 22, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Dynamically detecting multihomed network devices and allocating protection group identifiers" was invented by Shraddha Hegde (Bangalore, India), Krzysztof Grzegorz Szarkowicz (Vienna) and Zhaohui Zhang (Westford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first network device may receive a first advertisement of a network destination from a second network device and may detect multihoming with the second network device. The second network device may detect the multihoming with the first network device. The first network device and the second network may e...