US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Feb. 3 for "Predictive policy enforcement using encapsulated metadata" (American, Canadian, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,761, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Predictive policy enforcement using encapsulated metadata" was invented by David John Zacks (Vancouver, Canada), Dmitry Goloubev (Waterloo, Belgium), Zizhen Gao (San Ramon, Calif.), Carlos M. Pignataro (Cary, N.C.) and Nagendra Kumar Nainar (Morrisville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are provided for predictive policy enforcement using encapsulated metadata. The methods involve obtaining a packet of an encapsulated traffic flow that is transported in a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) or in a cloud network. The packet includes a ...