US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on April 7 for "Policy management and enforcement in a green elastic network" (French, Dutch, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,106, issued on April 7, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Policy management and enforcement in a green elastic network" was invented by Jean-Philippe Vasseur (Combloux, France), Gregory Mermoud (Venthone, Switzerland), Pierre-Andre Savalle (Rueil-Malmaison, France) and Eduard Schornig (Haarlem, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a device receives one or more constraints from a user interface regarding an acceptable level of performance of a computer network. The device forms, based on the one or more constraints, a policy to control performance of actions in the computer network...