ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,998, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Network metadata reporting" was invented by Amir Khan (Karnataka, India) and Ankit Ashokkumar Kansara (Karnataka, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are provided to decrease amount of the telemetry data traversed in a network. The methods involve obtaining, by a first network device, a packet of a traffic flow. The packet has a header and a payload. The methods further involve adding, by the first network device, to the header of the packet, telemetry node level metadata while skipping at least one element of the telemetry node level metadata t...