US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Dec. 9 for "Traffic protection with predetermined reroute and adaptive failure detection for use of applications hosted on virtual private clouds" (American, Canadian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,991, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Traffic protection with predetermined reroute and adaptive failure detection for use of applications hosted on virtual private clouds" was invented by Nagendra Kumar Nainar (Morrisville, N.C.), Jaganbabu Rajamanickam (Kanata, Canada), Madhan Sankaranarayanan (Chinnamanur, India), Carlos M. Pignataro (Cary, N.C.) and Akram Sheriff (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for quickly rerouting traffic to an application hosted on a first Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) location. In the event of an error in routing traffic to the f...