US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on June 24 for "Path assurance in shared transport" (Belgian, American, Italian, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,679, issued on June 24, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Path assurance in shared transport" was invented by Clarence Filsfils (Brussels), Pablo Camarillo Garvia (Madrid), Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Abdelsalam (L'Aquila, Italy) and Karen Michele Cadora (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media to measure performance of distinct paths of a network. A method includes determining a collection of hashes of a network based on a network probe event, each hash in the collection of hashes corresponding to a distinct path from a first edge device ...