US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 3 for "Policy expressions using QUIC connection identifiers" (Minnesota, New Hampshire, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,834, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Policy expressions using QUIC connection identifiers" was invented by Vincent E. Parla (North Hampton, N.H.), Kyle Andrew Donald Mestery (Woodbury, Minn.), Rajvardhan Somraj Deshmukh (San Jose, Calif.) and Nancy Patricia Cam-Winget (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for encoding metadata representing a policy into a QUIC connection ID are described herein. A metadata-aware network including one or more enforcement nodes, a policy engine, and/or a connection datastore may be utilized to enforce a policy and route communicatio...