ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,997, issued on July 15, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).
"Guiding configuration of a switch stack" was invented by Shilpa Sachin Dhamdhere (Southborough, Mass.) and Alan Charles Toews (Billerica, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, techniques are provided to guide a user to configure a switch stack. A recommendation and guidance facility may identify one or more network switches to be added to the switch stack. It may further identify any existing connections among ports. Using this information, the recommendation and guidance facility may build a set of configurations for the switch stack. T...