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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2018

Filed:

Sep. 16, 2015
Applicant:

Cloudgenix, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Kumar Ramachandran, Fremont, CA (US);

Venkataraman Anand, San Ramon, CA (US);

Navneet Yadav, Cupertino, CA (US);

Arivu Ramasamy, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

CLOUDGENIX, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/775 (2013.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 12/703 (2013.01); H04L 12/911 (2013.01); H04L 29/14 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01); H04W 84/04 (2009.01); H04L 12/707 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0668 (2013.01); G06F 17/30598 (2013.01); G06F 17/30876 (2013.01); H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); H04L 43/0817 (2013.01); H04L 45/28 (2013.01); H04L 47/781 (2013.01); H04L 47/825 (2013.01); H04L 69/40 (2013.01); H04L 43/0811 (2013.01); H04L 43/10 (2013.01); H04L 45/22 (2013.01); H04L 61/1511 (2013.01); H04L 61/1523 (2013.01); H04L 61/2503 (2013.01); H04W 84/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method includes deploying in series a plurality of configurable devices in a network configured to communicate with one another via a protocol for exchanging state information wherein at least one of the plurality of configurable devices is in an active state and at least one of the plurality of devices is in a standby state, detecting, by the at least one of the plurality of configurable devices in a standby state, a failure of a configurable device in an active state via a protocol and switching the at least one configurable device in a standby state to an active state.


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