US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Nov. 11 for "Computer network emulation using network device clusters" (Lebanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,460, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Computer network emulation using network device clusters" was invented by Mark Ammar Rayes (Alamo, Calif.), Samer Salam (Beirut), Arman Rezaee (San Francisco), Pradeep Kumar Kathail (Los Altos, Calif.) and Balaji R Venkatraman (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for emulating the operations of a computer network. In some cases, a method includes receiving first configuration data associated with a first device and second configuration data associated with a second device in a network; determining a firs...