Cisco Assigned Patent

Cisco Technology, San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,493,983) developed by Ganesan Rajagopal, and Sunil John Varghese, Bangalore, India, for “virtual fabric membership assignments for FCoE network devices.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Techniques are provided herein for receiving at a first network device, a virtual local area network (VLAN) discovery frame from a second network device. The second network device is configured to encapsulate FCoE. The hardware media access control (MAC) address or Port World Wide Name (PWWN) of the second network device is extracted from the VLAN discovery frame. A mapping is identified between the second network device and a corresponding virtual SAN (VSAN) based on the hardware MAC address or PWWN. The mapping identifies a corresponding VLAN for the second network device to use for login in order to communicate with the corresponding VSAN. Information representing the identified VLAN is sent to the second network device.”

The patent application was filed on June 2, 2010 (12/791,982).