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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2013
Applicants:
Sindhu K. Mohandas, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Abhishek Sinha, Woodland Hills, CA (US);
Inventors:
Sindhu K. Mohandas, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Abhishek Sinha, Woodland Hills, CA (US);
Assignee:
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/947 (2013.01); H04Q 3/545 (2006.01); H04L 12/703 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 49/25 (2013.01); H04Q 3/5455 (2013.01); H04L 45/28 (2013.01);
Abstract
Layered third-party (enhanced) application software redundancy is provided in a non-homogeneous virtual chassis including two or more switches coupled via a virtual fabric link. A virtual chassis management module within at least one of the switches discovers the other switches within the virtual chassis, determines a base master switch from all of the switches in the virtual chassis, detects an enhanced application installed on at least one enhanced switch and determines an enhanced master switch from the enhanced switches.