ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,129, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Partitioning for active monitoring" was invented by Viktor M. E. Leijon (San Jose, Calif.) and Scott Z. Huang (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein selectively transmit probes between network nodes to estimate metrics associated with end-to-end paths through the network. In one embodiment, the network provider identifies key nodes based on a performance heuristic, such as the number of paths that run through each nodes, the amount of traffic that flows through the nodes, and the like. In addition to transmitting probes b...