US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 17 for "Automatic service chaining of bi-directional transit traffic" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,476, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automatic service chaining of bi-directional transit traffic" was invented by Avinash Shah (Pleasanton, Calif.), Pritam Baruah (Fremont, Calif.), Amjad Inamdar (Karnataka, India), Laxmikantha Reddy Ponnuru (San Ramon, Calif.), Latika Ahuja (Haryana, India) and Jai Prakash Agrawal (Bilaspur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system facilitates communication between branches of an SD-WAN and a service chain element. A hub node receives a data packet of a flow from a source branch over a VPN segment to be transmitted to a destination branch, extracts...