US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Oct. 14 for "Using client-hello for intelligent routing and firewalling in multipath secure access systems" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,527, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Using client-hello for intelligent routing and firewalling in multipath secure access systems" was invented by Vincent E. Parla (North Hampton, N.H.), Jerome Tollet (Paris), Aloys Christophe Augustin (Versaille, France) and Mohammed Hawari (Montigny-le-Bretonne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for utilizing a portion of a communication session identifier (e.g., a Session-ID, an SPI, a CID, a DCID, and/or the like) to indicate a target routing device (e.g., a VPN and/or ZTNA termination device) for establishing control plane session(s) ...