Cisco Assigned Patent

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,719,413) developed by Christian Sasso, Milpitas, CA, Ronak Desai, Fremont, CA, and Siddharth Kasat, Santa Clara, CA, for a “method and apparatus for implementing a recovery action in response to a state change in a SAN.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Methods and apparatus for reconfiguring a fabric associated with a SAN are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method includes undergoing an update process, the update process being arranged to update software associated with a switch. The switch is included in a SAN fabric. The method also includes determining when the update process is completed, and ascertaining whether there is at least one state change associated with the SAN fabric when the update process is completed. Finally, the method includes initiating a recovery action in the SAN fabric if there is at least one state change associated with the SAN fabric.”

The patent application was filed on Dec. 20, 2007 (11/960,893).