ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,463, issued on May 13, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Packet flow sampling in network monitoring" was invented by Jianda Liu (Shanghai), Xiaorong Wang (Shanghai), Yicheng Liu (Shanghai), Hongbo Xia (Shanghai) and Wei Zhou (Changsha, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques and mechanisms for intelligently sampling packet flows within a network. The techniques enable the sampling of a limited set of packet flows that show greatest amount of information about the network from the packet flows in order to provide the greatest insight on application performance, network packet,...