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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2024
Alpha Networks Inc., Hsinchu, TW;
Cheng-Hsien Lin, Hsinchu, TW;
Hsiu-Ching Lin, Hsinchu, TW;
Jian Wang, Hsinchu, TW;
Daobing Tang, Hsinchu, TW;
Qian Xu, Hsinchu, TW;
ALPHA NETWORKS INC., Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
A method for automatically changing a topology includes: activating a number (i) of network switches included in a stack, a last switch and first (i−1) network switches being included in the stack; deactivating one of the activated switches as a deactivated switch; decoupling the last switch from the other activated switches, and resetting the last switch; disabling settings of Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) between the last switch and a switch device, disabling settings of LACP between the last switch and a neighboring device, and performing a reset configuration operation to reconfigure a connection setting between the last switch and the switch device and a connection setting between the last switch and the neighboring device; and establishing settings of LACP between the last switch and each of the network switches that is neither the deactivated switch nor the last switch.