Configuring networks including spanning trees

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9178762-B2
Application number	US-201414166137-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 28, 2014
Priority date	May 1, 2008
Publication date	Nov 3, 2015
Grant date	Nov 3, 2015

Abstract

A method may include receiving a reconfiguration to a first Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN)/spanning tree table, where the first VLAN/spanning tree table has a first identifier and is associated with a region of a network; updating the first VLAN/spanning tree table to generate a second VLAN/spanning tree table based on the reconfiguration; determining a second identifier of the second VLAN/spanning tree table; and generating a list of identifiers associated with the region of the network, the list including the first identifier and the second identifier.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
determining, by a device, whether to create a first region based on a first digest;
updating, by the device, a field, of a data structure, associated with a second region to equal the first digest when the first region is to be created,
the first digest being associated with the second region when the first region is not to be created, and
a second digest being associated with the second region when the first digest is associated wi…

Assignees

• Juniper Networks Inc

Inventors

• Dalvi Gaurish R
• Lee Choon
• Ranjan Ashish

Classifications

• H04L45/48

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L45/54

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L12/462 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L41/0813 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L12/4641

  Electricity · mapped topic