US 11,722,374 B2
MAC address dynamic assignment for a network element
Adi Bonen, Belle Mead, NJ (US)
Assigned to Harmonie, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Harmonic, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 14, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/346,790.
Application 17/346,790 is a continuation of application No. 16/155,687, filed on Oct. 9, 2018, granted, now 11,044,227.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/570,609, filed on Oct. 10, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0320900 A1, Oct. 14, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 41/085 (2022.01); H04L 41/0893 (2022.01); H04Q 11/00 (2006.01); H04L 101/622 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 41/085 (2013.01) [H04L 41/0893 (2013.01); H04Q 11/0067 (2013.01); H04L 2101/622 (2022.05); H04Q 2011/0073 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An article of manufacture, comprising:
a housing that encloses:
a non-volatile memory;
one or more modular network elements each comprising a CPU; and
a communication link between the CPU of each of said one or more modular network elements and the non-volatile memory,
wherein said non-volatile memory does not reside within any of said one or more modular network elements, and wherein the CPU of each modular network element is configured to retrieve, across the communication link, at least one MAC address from said non-volatile memory and adopt a particular MAC address from said at least one MAC address to identify itself any time that the modular network element in which the CPU resides reboots.