ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,105, issued on April 7, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Software-defined device tracking in network fabrics" was invented by Mariusz Kazmierski (Malopolskie, Poland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for leveraging a software defined tracking architecture for endpoint probing are described. An orchestrator of a network fabric receives probing rules associated with a particular endpoint type. The orchestrator receives a notification that an event occurred with respect to an and point connected to the fabric edge device, the notification indicates that the endpoint is of the particular endpoint type. B...