US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on April 15 for "Distributed virtualization of telemetry processing with IP anycast" (Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,737, issued on April 15, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Distributed virtualization of telemetry processing with IP anycast" was invented by Dmitri Goloubev (Waterloo, Belgium), Peter De Vriendt (Denderleeuw, Belgium), Donald M. Allen (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and Luc De Ghein (Deinze, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are techniques to analyze network traffic and equipment based on telemetry generated by a plurality of network devices. A method includes generating first telemetry at a first network device, receiving, at the first network device, via an Internet Protocol anycast address...