US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on April 8 for "Network node-to-node connectivity verification including data path processing of packets within a packet switching device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,254, issued on April 8, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Network node-to-node connectivity verification including data path processing of packets within a packet switching device" was invented by Rajagopal Venkatraman (San Jose, Calif.), Rajeev Kumar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Roberto Mitsuo Kobo (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Vikash Agarwal (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, network node-to-node connectivity verification is performed in a network including data path processing of packets within a packet switching device. In one embodiment, an echo request connectivity test packet, emula...