US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Sept. 9 for "Predictive routing using risk and longevity metrics" (Swiss, Dutch, American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,513, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Predictive routing using risk and longevity metrics" was invented by Jean-Philippe Vasseur (Saint Martin d'Uriage, France), Stephane Bernard Martin (Lausanne, Switzerland), Eduard Schornig (Haarlem, Netherlands), Gregory Mermoud (Venthone, Switzerland) and Vinay Kumar Kolar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device makes a prediction regarding service level agreement violations by a network transport available between a site and an online application. The device associates a risk metric with the prediction, based in ...