US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Aug. 26 for "Underlay path discovery for a wide area network" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,584, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Underlay path discovery for a wide area network" was invented by Anubhav Gupta (Fremont, Calif.), Pritam Baruah (San Jose, Calif.), Laxmikantha Reddy Ponnuru (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Sireesha Yeruva (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject matter of this disclosure relates in general to the field of computer networking, and more particularly, to systems and methods for discovery of a tunnel for wide area network. Certain aspects provide a method for network path analysis. The method includes sending a first probe packet configured t...