US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Aug. 11 for "Routable and intent-based service chains" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,849, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Routable and intent-based service chains" was invented by Pritam Baruah (Fremont, Calif.), Amjad Inamdar (Karnataka, India), Laxmikantha Reddy Ponnuru (San Ramon, Calif.) and Samir D Thoria (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to making service-chains routable and intent-based within an enterprise network. In one aspect, a method for simplifying steering of network traffic includes receiving an intent-based description of one or more services to be applied to the network traffic; defining a type for a serv...