ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,265, issued on June 10, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Network flow differentiation using a local agent" was invented by Jordan Francois Jean Auge (Saint-Cyr-I-Ecole, France) and Jacques Olivier Samain (Paris).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an agent executed by a device receives a packet generated by an application executed by the device that includes a flow profile identifier. The agent determines one or more adjustments to the packet based in part by matching the flow profile identifier of the packet to a flow profile for the application. The agent forms an adjusted packet by applying t...