US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Nov. 4 for "Avoiding user experience disruptions using contextual multi-armed bandits" (French, American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,893, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Avoiding user experience disruptions using contextual multi-armed bandits" was invented by Pierre-Andre Savalle (Rueil-Malmaison, France), Jean-Philippe Vasseur (Saint Martin d'Uriage, France), Gregory Mermoud (Venthone, Switzerland) and Vinay Kumar Kolar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device uses a multi-armed bandit model to select different network paths over time via which traffic associated with an online application is routed. The device obtains, from a provider of the online application, application experienc...