US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on April 22 for "Application-based data labeling" (California, Minnesota, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,119, issued on April 22, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Application-based data labeling" was invented by Ian James Wells (San Jose, Calif.), Kyle Andrew Donald Mestery (Woodbury, Minn.), Carlos M. Pignataro (Cary, N.C.) and Nagendra Kumar Nainar (Morrisville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for performing application-based tagging. An example method includes receiving, at a virtual socket, non-packetized data from an application and generating, by the virtual socket, a label based on the application. One or more data packets are generated by packetizing at least a po...