US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Aug. 25 for "Network telemetry with byte distribution and cryptographic protocol data elements" (North Carolina, Maryland, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,839, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Network telemetry with byte distribution and cryptographic protocol data elements" was invented by Blake Harrell Anderson (Chapel Hill, N.C.), David Arthur McGrew (Poolesville, Md.) and Alison Kendler (Allston, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a traffic flow including a plurality of packets encrypted using a cryptographic protocol, determining cryptographic protocol data of the traffic flow, and transmitting telemetry data of the traffic flow including the cryptographic protocol data. In another embodi...