US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Oct. 7 for "Network end-to-end traffic flow statistics from arbitrary network location" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,797, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Network end-to-end traffic flow statistics from arbitrary network location" was invented by Jianda Liu (Shanghai), Xiao-Rong Wang (Shanghai), Hongbo Xia (Shanghai), Jiayi You (Shanghai) and Yu Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and architecture are described for tracking flows of packets in a network using a packet color marking scheme for obtaining network end-to-end traffic flow metrics in the network. In particular, in configurations, a user may be prompted to specify a site and a virtual private network (VPN) at which to start ...