US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 2 for "Microservice visibility and control" (Canadian, American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,644, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Microservice visibility and control" was invented by Thomas Szigeti (Vancouver, Canada), David John Zacks (Vancouver, Canada), Akram Ismail Sheriff (San Jose, Calif.), Guy Keinan (Kfar-Saba, Israel) and Walter T. Hulick Jr. (Pearland, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are provided in which a domain name system (DNS) service obtains a lookup request for information about a source of a traffic flow being transmitted to a network resource external of a service cluster and performs, based on the lookup request, a lookup operation for a microserv...