US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 15 for "Options template transport for software defined wide area networks" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,996, issued on July 15, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Options template transport for software defined wide area networks" was invented by Yuefeng Jiang (Shanghai), Lijian Yang (Liaoning, China) and Jiang Yu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for improving options templates are described. The techniques may be performed at least in part by a network edge device and may include receiving, from a network collector device, a request for an options template download, the request indicating whether a full options template or partial options template are requested. Based at least in part on whet...