US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Dec. 16 for "Multi-path monitoring of application instances using DNS-based reachability information" (Polish, Danish, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,824, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multi-path monitoring of application instances using DNS-based reachability information" was invented by Morten Skriver (Hinnerup, Denmark), Aniela Ariadna Borowczyk (Gorzow Wielkopolski, Poland), Felix Hugo Maurer (Carouge, Switzerland) and Angeliki Papathanasiou (Cracow, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device receives a domain name system text record containing Internet reachability information for a plurality of application instances of a particular application identified by a given domain name. The device determines a pri...