ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,193, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Providing dynamic user-behavior-aware policies in software defined wide area networks" was invented by Amjad Inamdar (Karnataka, India), Syed Arslan Ahmed (Karnataka, India), Raj Venkatesan (Mill Valley, Calif.), Ankur Bhargava (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Ashish Sood (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques and mechanisms for enabling and enforcing user behavior aware policies within an enterprise network. The techniques include receiving flow data and learning network traffic patterns and user behavior patter...