US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Sept. 30 for "Selecting paths for high predictability using clustering" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,138, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Selecting paths for high predictability using clustering" was invented by Mukund Yelahanka Raghuprasad (San Jose, Calif.), Jean-Philippe Vasseur (Saint Martin d'Uriage, France) and Vinay Kumar Kolar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device forms a plurality of clusters of network paths used to convey traffic for an online application by applying clustering to telemetry data for those network paths. The device determines a predictability metric for a particular cluster in the plurality of clusters. The device provid...