US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Nov. 18 for "Wire-speed routing and policy enforcement without DPI or decryption" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,947, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Wire-speed routing and policy enforcement without DPI or decryption" was invented by Vincent Parla (North Hampton, N.H.), Kyle Andrew Donald Mestery (Woodbury, Minn.), Rahim Lalani (Vancouver, Canada) and Scott Roy Fluhrer (North Attleboro, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and computer-implemented method for routing an encrypted packet through a cloud enforcement network based on a metadata tag. The cloud enforcement network applies policy and routing attributions or tags outside of the encrypted packet payload in such a way as to not requ...