US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Dec. 16 for "Optimizing path tracing to enable network assurance in existing network hardware" (Belgian, American, Italian, French, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,828, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Optimizing path tracing to enable network assurance in existing network hardware" was invented by Clarence Filsfils (Brussels), Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Abdelsalam (L'Aquila, Italy), Pablo Camarillo Garvia (Madrid), Jisu Bhattacharya (San Jose, Calif.) and Sonia Ben Ayed (Ile-de-France, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for providing an optimized behavior to source node(s) of a path tracing sequence allowing for implementation of path tracing source node behavior on an ASIC with edit-depth limitations and/or on an ASIC that does not have acce...