US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 10 for "Multifaceted security group classification in overlay fabric" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,604, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multifaceted security group classification in overlay fabric" was invented by Rajagopalan Janakiraman (Cupertino, Calif.), Kiran Sasidharan Pillai (Fremont, Calif.), Muralidhar Annabatula (Dublin, Calif.) and Murukanandam K. Panchalingam (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for using policies in an overlay communication network are disclosed. These techniques include deriving a plurality of source tags for a flow relating to an overlay communication network, the plurality of source tags relating to one or more policies for the flow...