US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 17 for "Recommendation grouping for predictive networking" (French, Dutch, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,457, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Recommendation grouping for predictive networking" was invented by Jean-Philippe Vasseur (Combloux, France), Gregory Mermoud (Venthone, Switzerland), Pierre-Andre Savalle (Rueil-Malmaison, France) and Eduard Schornig (Haarlem, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device generates a plurality of recommendations for a network, each recommendation indicating a suggested action to optimize quality of experience of a corresponding application accessible via the network. The device assigns scores to different possible groupings of ...