US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Aug. 11 for "End-to-end transactional microsegmentation" (Texas, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,991, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"End-to-end transactional microsegmentation" was invented by Vincent E. Parla (North Hampton, N.H.) and Walter Hulick (Pearland, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for microsegmenting network communication transactions from end-to-end over an entire network communication path between a client device and a workload. The techniques may include determining that a first layer of a packet traversing the communication path includes a first metadata tag associated with a first segmentation ecosystem applying a microsegmentation policy along a firs...