US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on April 1 for "Group based classification and policy enforcement for external network traffic" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,238, issued on April 1, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Group based classification and policy enforcement for external network traffic" was invented by Prakash C. Jain (Fremont, Calif.), Sanjay Kumar Hooda (Pleasanton, Calif.), Darrin Joseph Miller (Marysville, Ohio) and Ashwin Kumar (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for group-based classification and policy enforcement at a network fabric edge for traffic that is being sent to external network destinations are disclosed herein. The techniques may include receiving, at a control plane of a network and from an edge node of the netwo...