US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Aug. 4 for "Active and passive measurement on data traffic of a virtual private network (VPN) service" (Canadian, Belgian, Italian, French, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,068, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Active and passive measurement on data traffic of a virtual private network (VPN) service" was invented by Clarence Filsfils (Brussels), Rakesh Gandhi (Stittsville, Canada), Pablo Camarillo Garvia (Madrid), Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Abdelsalam (L'Aquila, Italy) and Sonia Ben Ayed (Vanves, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques and mechanisms for performing passive measurement for combined one-way latency, packet loss metrics along with liveness detection using customer data packets ingested at a sink node in hardware for Lev...