US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Feb. 3 for "Admission control based on universal references for hardware and/or software configurations" (Maryland, Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,404, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Admission control based on universal references for hardware and/or software configurations" was invented by Eric A. Voit (Bethesda, Md.), Edward A. Warnicke (Austin, Texas) and Jeffrey G. Schutt (Davis, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and computer program product are provided for performing admission control tasks. A universal reference for an executing application is obtained, wherein the universal reference identifies one or more components of the executing application by additional universal references assigned to the...