ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,627, issued on July 8, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Network topology providing a seamless transition between levels" was invented by Srinivas Siva Kanth Sattiraju (Long Grove, Ill.), Irina Alexandra Dumitru (Bucharest, Romania), Daniel Michael Rotondo (Austin, Texas), Carlos Javier Campos Torres (Miami Shores, Fla.) and Juan Carlos Pontaza (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and architecture are described that provide a multi-platform tool focused on displaying various levels of a topology of a network to a user while maintaining an original context of the user that was initially ...