US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Sept. 30 for "Source-provisioned services infrastructure" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,133, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Source-provisioned services infrastructure" was invented by Patrice Brissette (Gatineau, Canada), Thierry Couture (Mont-Royal, Canada), Karen Michele Cadora (Boulder, Colo.), Jiri Chaloupka (San Jose, Calif.) and Suresh Basavarajappa (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for a head-end node in one or more network autonomous systems to utilize a protocol to instantiate services on tail-end nodes. The head-end node can use a service request mechanism that is enabled by the protocol to request service instantiation on the tail-end ...