US Patent Issued to Cisco Technologies on March 18 for "Load balancing application traffic with predictive goodput adaptation" (French, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,822, issued on March 18, was assigned to Cisco Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Load balancing application traffic with predictive goodput adaptation" was invented by Gregory Mermoud (Venthone, Switzerland) and Jean-Philippe Vasseur (Saint Martin d'Uriage, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device obtains data indicative of quality of experience for an online application. The device predicts, based on the data, path performances of network paths between an endpoint and the online application for different traffic loads. The device selects traffic loads for the network paths between the endpoint and the ...