ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,811, issued on March 18, was assigned to Nutanix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Fallback-aware policy-based routing" was invented by Mary Preeti Manohar (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Sragdhara Datta Chaudhuri (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer program products for computer networking. Legacy policy-based routing is advanced by adding fallback-aware policy actions that are enabled within a policy-based routing regime. Upon determining that a destination specified in a subject policy is compromised, or down, or unreachable then, a fallback-aware policy action is invoked. Destinations specified in pol...