US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on March 18 for "Software-as-a-service probe aggregation in networks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,797, issued on March 18, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Software-as-a-service probe aggregation in networks" was invented by Balaji Sundararajan (Fremont, Calif.), Vivek Agarwal (Campbell, Calif.), Jegan Kumar Somi Ramasamy Subramanian (Mountain View, Calif.), Gokul Krishnan (Milpitas, Calif.), Giorgio Valentini (Walnut Creek, Calif.) and Venkatraman Venkatapathy (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for sharing the probing of software-as-a-service clouds among a cluster of routers are described herein. The techniques may include establishing a first path between a cluster of routers ...