US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Jan. 27 for "Feature sharing and handoff for power optimization" (American, French, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,703, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Feature sharing and handoff for power optimization" was invented by Pascal Thubert (Roquefort les Pins, France), Gonzalo A. Salgueiro (Raleigh, N.C.), Derek W. Engi (Pleasant Ridge, Mich.) and Marisol Palmero Amador (Toledo, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are devices, systems, methods, and processes for intelligently managing power consumption in a network by allocating a power budget for packet processing. The power budget can be allocated based on criticality and/or the trust level of the flow. A network device may determine wh...