US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on March 25 for "Learning probing strategies for QoE assessment" (French, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,751, issued on March 25, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Learning probing strategies for QoE assessment" was invented by Gregory Mermoud (Venthone, Switzerland) and Jean-Philippe Vasseur (Combloux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device causes, in accordance with a probing strategy, performance of a probing test by one or more agents in a network and with respect to an online application. The device obtains quality of experience measurements for the online application. The device adjusts, using reinforcement learning, the probing strategy based on how well a predictive model was ...