US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on July 22 for "Load balancing and ensuring availability for network subscriber groups" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,635, issued on July 22, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Load balancing and ensuring availability for network subscriber groups" was invented by Cristina Radulescu-Banu (Lexington, Mass.) and John E. Ziegler (Westborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device may assign subscriber groups to logical ports of the network device, and may generate a load balanced group that includes the logical ports assigned to the subscriber groups. The network device may provide a backup logical port for the load balanced group, and may maintain the backup logical port in an oversubscribed state or a full sta...