US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on April 21 for "Layer-2 path discovery of active probe connection monitoring" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,883, issued on April 21, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Layer-2 path discovery of active probe connection monitoring" was invented by Filippo Ardito (Mont-sur-Rolle, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a device may obtain telemetry data from Layer-2 network devices on a test path trace of a computing network. The device may generate, based on the telemetry data, a correlation of the Layer-2 network devices with Layer-3 path trace data. The device may determine, based on the correlation, a Layer-2 path for the test path trace on the computing network. The device may integrate ...