Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for 'Virtual Network Function Proof Of Transit' Filed by Cisco Technology, Inc.

MUMBAI, India, June 6 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517047535 A) filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, U.S.A., on May 16, for 'virtual network function proof of transit.'

Inventor(s) include Filsfils, Clarence; Abdelsalam, Ahmed, Mohamed Ahmed; Ayed, Sonia, Ben; and Garvia, Camarillo.

The application for the patent was published on June 6, under issue no. 23/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Techniques for monitoring data transport in a network virtualization function chain. A path tracing packet is generated having a Midpoint Compressed Data (MCD) to collect path tracing information of the network virtualization function chain. The network virtualiz...