US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 24 for "Confidence-based geolocation of network hops from aggregated multi-source data" (California, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,975, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Confidence-based geolocation of network hops from aggregated multi-source data" was invented by Kyle Graham Schomp (Avon, Ohio) and Arash Molavi Kakhki (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a device may obtain geolocation data from a plurality of sources for each hop in a traceroute. The device may assign a confidence characterization to each geolocation data point based on an accuracy assessment associated with its respective source. The device may identify a potential geolocation assignment for each hop in the tracerout...