US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Aug. 25 for "Active network performance measurement leveraging networking protocol features" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,778, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Active network performance measurement leveraging networking protocol features" was invented by Bernard Tremblay (Lorraine, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to obtain network performance measurements without having to deploy a reflector device in a network. The method involves generating at a first device, a first frame according to a feature of a networking protocol, wherein the first frame is generated by inserting timestamp information indicating a departure time of the first frame into each of a first field and a second field of a hea...