ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,702, issued on June 24, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Packet flow identification and QoE-aware processing using a local device agent" was invented by Jordan Francois Jean Auge (Saint-Cyr-I-Ecole, France), Jacques Olivier Samain (Paris) and Mauro Sardara (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an agent executed by a device maps a packet flow of the device with a session of an application executed by the device based on execution information about the application that is captured by an operating system of the device. The agent determines, based in part on mapping the p...