US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on July 1 for "Metadata prioritization" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,603, issued on July 1, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Metadata prioritization" was invented by Amir Khan (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are provided to categorize and filter node metadata by adding a priority field to the node metadata, obtained as part of in-band network telemetry data collection. The methods involve obtaining, by a first network device, a packet having a header and a payload and adding, by the first network device, to the header of the packet, metadata which includes first telemetry data and a metadata priority level that indicates a priority of the first telemet...