US Patent Issued to Mellanox Technologies on April 29 for "In-service software update managed by network controller" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,311, issued on April 29, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd (Yokneam, Israel).

"In-service software update managed by network controller" was invented by Ortal Bashan (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Ayal Lior (Kiryat Ono, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller includes one or more ports and a processor. The one or more ports are to communicate with a network that includes multiple network devices. The processor is to receive, from a network device in the network, a request to perform a software update in the network device, to evaluate a permission condition in response to the request, to send to the network device a respons...