US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on March 25 for "Service insertion in a computer network using dynamic service path selection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,919, issued on March 25, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Service insertion in a computer network using dynamic service path selection" was invented by Satish Kumar Mahadevan (San Ramon, Calif.), Laxmikantha Reddy Ponnuru (San Ramon, Calif.) and Pritam Baruah (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for enabling service insertion using dynamic service path selection are described herein. In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to avoiding a service route that passes through a service router when the second-leg path from the service router to a destination router is unreacha...