US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Jan. 13 for "Generating long-term network changes from SLA violations" (French, Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,685, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generating long-term network changes from SLA violations" was invented by David Tedaldi (Zurich), Jean-Philippe Vasseur (Saint Martin d'Uriage, France), Gregory Mermoud (Venthone, Switzerland), Pierre-Andre Savalle (Rueil-Malmaison, France) and Vinay Kumar Kolar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device obtains information regarding temporary routing patches applied to a network. Each temporary routing patch implements a routing change in the network for a specified amount of time to avoid or mitigate against a servic...