ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,797, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Micro Focus LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Efficient liveness detection in a management network" was invented by Vamsi Krishna (Bangalore, India), Ashoka Shetty (Bangalore, India) and Harinath Jarugula (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request is received by a network management server, from a managed node, to get cluster information. The cluster information identifies a coordinator node and a leader node (a node hierarchy) that are used to track liveness of the managed node. The coordinator node and the leader node may be identified based on being in the same location as the mana...