US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Aug. 25 for "Application-aware routing through paths of satellite networks" (Canadian, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,561, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Application-aware routing through paths of satellite networks" was invented by Thomas Szigeti (Vancouver, Canada), David John Zacks (Vancouver, Canada), Jeff Apcar (Willoughby, Australia) and Robert Edgar Barton (Richmond, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for a low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite to route data through optimal satellite paths based on latency thresholds (and/or other QoS thresholds) for the application generating the data. The LEO satellite may identify the latency threshold from a data packet, where the latency threshold in...