US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Nov. 18 for "Point-to-multipoint service assurance using performance measurement" (Canadian, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,893, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Point-to-multipoint service assurance using performance measurement" was invented by Mankamana Prasad Mishra (San Jose, Calif.), Nitin Kumar (San Jose, Calif.), Vishal Madhav Ninawe (Maharashtra, India) and Rakesh Gandhi (Stittsville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, a computer-implemented method for performance monitoring in a multicast network, includes a controller causing a source router to originate a probe data packet. The controller may also originate, at the source router, the probe data packet, where the probe data packet...