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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2012
Applicant:
Nitin Jain, Saratoga, CA (US);
Inventor:
Nitin Jain, Saratoga, CA (US);
Assignee:
ARRIS Enterprises LLC, Suwanee, GA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/042 (2013.01); H04L 41/12 (2013.01); H04L 61/103 (2013.01); H04L 12/18 (2013.01);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention provides a computing system. The computing system includes a discovery module, a high-availability management module, and a controlling module. The discovery module determines local switch-specific information associated with a switch based on a discovery response packet. The high-availability management module determines remote switch-specific information about the same switch with respect to a remote computing system. The controlling module determines whether the computing system is to manage the switch based on a metric derived from the local and remote switch-specific information.