US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 4 for "System and method for multi-path load balancing in network fabrics" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,846, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method for multi-path load balancing in network fabrics" was invented by Mohammadreza Alizadeh Attar (Santa Clara, Calif.), Thomas J. Edsall (Los Gatos, Calif.), Sarang M. Dharmapurikar (Cupertino, Calif.) and Janakiramanan Vaidyanathan (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with one embodiment, a source leaf device receives a packet.The source leaf device identifies a flowlet associated with the packet and a destination leaf device to which the packet is to be transmitted. The source leaf device may determine whether ...