ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,088, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Flow parser and per flow data center utilization in a cloud-based secure access service environment" was invented by Kyle Andrew Donald Mestery (Woodbury, Minn.), Mark A. Bakke (Maple Grove, Minn.) and William Mark Townsley (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to network traffic management and load balancing at a cloud-based secure access service accessible to remotely connected user devices. In one example, a cloud-based secure service system includes a network controller configured to receive network traffi...