ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,418, issued on May 13, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Automatic SAAS optimization" was invented by Darren Russell Dukes (Ottawa), Jeevan Sharma (Pleasanton, Calif.), Fabio R. Maino (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Alberto Rodriguez-Natal (Leon, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for enabling a network access provider to make automatic Software as a Service (SaaS) optimization decisions. Among other things, the techniques may include determining a SaaS application that is being accessed by client endpoints via flows through a network access provider. The techniques may also include determining, based at...