US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 10 for "Single hierarchical construct for defining a service in a service chain" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,472, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Single hierarchical construct for defining a service in a service chain" was invented by Pritam Baruah (Fremont, Calif.), Amjad Inamdar (Karnataka, India), Laxmikantha Reddy Ponnuru (San Ramon, Calif.), Avinash Shah (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Jai Prakash Agrawal (Bilaspur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more aspects of the present disclosure are directed to providing a single hierarchical construct for defining requirements (connectivity parameters) of a service in a service chain. In one aspect, a single construct for identifying a service ...