ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,613, issued on July 8, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Application assurance" was invented by Dmitri Kalintsev (Blackburn South, Australia) and David Gee (Burton on Trent, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for providing application assurance by validating expected packet flows for an application against a model of a network that is to transport the expected packet flows. For example, a method includes obtaining, by an application assurance system, a flow definition that describes a packet flow for an application; determining, by the application assurance syste...