US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on Nov. 18 for "State transitions for redundancy groups" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,042, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"State transitions for redundancy groups" was invented by Cristina Radulescu-Banu (Lexington, Mass.), John Gibbons (Ashland, Mass.), John E. Ziegler (Westborough, Mass.) and Andrzej W. Szyszko (Holden, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a network device may receive an indication of a switchover for a subscriber group that contains subsets of subscriber sessions. The network device may transition each subset of the subscriber sessions to a state associated with traffic forwarding. The network device may selectively transition ...