US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on April 29 for "Systems and methods for asymmetrical peer forwarding in an SD-WAN environment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,232, issued on April 29, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for asymmetrical peer forwarding in an SD-WAN environment" was invented by Laxmikantha Reddy Ponnuru (San Ramon, Calif.), Arul Murugan Manickam (San Jose, Calif.), Michael David Tracy (Foster City, Calif.), Kannan Kumar (San Jose, Calif.) and Hamzah Kardame (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a first node of a node cluster in a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN), traffic from a wide area network (WAN), assigning, by the first node of the node cluster, flow ownersh...