US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 23 for "Prioritizing network traffic for emergency services" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,079, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Prioritizing network traffic for emergency services" was invented by John Matthew Swartz (Lithia, Fla.), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Robert Edgar Barton (Richmond, Canada), Matthew Aaron Silverman (Shaker Heights, Ohio) and Fred Jay Anderson (Lakeville, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and computer program product are provided for prioritizing network traffic. An indication is received at a network controller that an alarm is activated at a physical site. A request is received from a user device to join a network at ...