ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,128, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Detecting VLAN misconfiguration" was invented by Jisheng Wang (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods for detecting misconfigured VLANs. In some embodiments, traffic on a VLAN across multiple access points is categorized. Traffic on the VLAN at a single access point is then also categorized. The categorization of the VLAN traffic at the single access point can be in response to, for example, communication errors or other conditions. The two categorizations are then compared to determine if the VLAN traffic at the AP is ...