US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Aug. 4 for "Using machine learning techniques to predict device buffer status" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,458, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Using machine learning techniques to predict device buffer status" was invented by Robert Barton (Richmond, Canada), Matthew Silverman (Shaker Heights, Ohio), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Indermeet Gandhi (San Jose, Calif.) and Malcolm Smith (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, methods, and processes are described herein that can reduce network communication overhead by reducing data that is sent. This reduction in data can be achieved by reducing the requests for data related to the buffers of one or more network device...