US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Aug. 25 for "Binding flows to unique addresses or ports" (New Hampshire, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,827, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Binding flows to unique addresses or ports" was invented by Kyle Andrew Donald Mestery (Woodbury, Minn.) and Vincent E. Parla (North Hampton, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for binding communication flows to unique addresses and/or ports, and configuring networking devices internal to a network to apply policy without the need to further introspect a given stream. Further, by creating mappings of unique addresses and/or ports to flows, the network devices are able to enforce policy without needing to coordinate with an edge node of the ...