ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,267, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for sharing a control connection" was invented by Srilatha Tangirala (San Jose, Calif.), Rahul Hardikar (San Ramon, Calif.), Sheikh Qumruzzaman (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ravi Kiran Chintallapudi (Pleasanton, Calif.), Samir Thoria (Saratoga, Calif.), Ajeet Pal Singh Gill (Fremont, Calif.) and Vivek Agarwal (Campbell, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes onboarding, by an edge router, a first tenant from a network management system and determining, by the edge router, a mapping of a tenant identifier...