US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on April 14 for "Grouping endpoints of a network for NAT to organize IP address space for policy applications" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,841, issued on April 14, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Grouping endpoints of a network for NAT to organize IP address space for policy applications" was invented by Victor Manuel Moreno (Carlsbad, Calif.), Shyamsundar N. Maniyar (San Jose, Calif.), Sanjay Kumar Hooda (Pleasanton, Calif.), Prakash C. Jain (Fremont, Calif.) and Vinay Saini (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and architecture are described that utilize network address translation (NAT) based on a group tag such that legacy and third-party devices may utilize and apply "subnet" based policies, thereby allowing the sub...