US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on June 17 for "Service optimization in networks and cloud interconnects" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,237, issued on June 17, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Service optimization in networks and cloud interconnects" was invented by Balaji Sundararajan (Fremont, Calif.), Venkatesh Nataraj (Union City, Calif.), Kannan Kumar (Tracy, Calif.), Padmanabha Nallur (Fremont, Calif.), Abha Jain (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Kushal Patel (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques and mechanisms for disclosure describes techniques and mechanisms for optimizing firewall enforcement. The techniques may implement a dynamic detection of Layer 7 processing at one end of the network, all...