US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on March 25 for "HTTP type connectivity detection using parallel probes for preferred protocol selection" (New Hampshire Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,901, issued on March 25, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"HTTP type connectivity detection using parallel probes for preferred protocol selection" was invented by Vincent E. Parla (North Hampton, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining a preferred HTTP protocol for communication between a client device and a server over a network are described. A first type of HTTP probe is transmitted over a network from a client device to a server. A second type of HTTP probe is transmitted over a network from the client device to the server. If either the first type of HTTP probe response or the se...