US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Dec. 30 for "Hardware accelerated path tracing analytics" (Belgian, American, Italian, French, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,072, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Hardware accelerated path tracing analytics" was invented by Clarence Filsfils (Brussels), Pablo Camarillo Garvia (Madrid), Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Abdelsalam (L'Aquila, Italy), Sonia Ben Ayed (Ile-de-France, France) and Jisu Bhattacharya (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for processing path tracing probe packets using hardware (e.g., hardware memory of a node) and without the involvement of a path tracing collector component of a network controller. A source node may be configured to generate and assign random flow labels to a la...