US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Jan. 13 for "Proactive congestion notification based on service level agreement thresholds" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,206, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Proactive congestion notification based on service level agreement thresholds" was invented by Arul Murugan Manickam (San Jose, Calif.), Laxmikantha Reddy Ponnuru (San Ramon, Calif.), Hongbo Xia (Shanghai) and Govindakrishnan Kannan (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein can enable proactive congestion notifications based on service level agreement (SLA) thresholds. The disclosed techniques can be performed at a network router device. The router can monitor network traffic performance measurements of network tra...