US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 24 for "Methods for a virtual private network (VPN) client operating as a pass-through VPN client for private applications" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,018, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods for a virtual private network (VPN) client operating as a pass-through VPN client for private applications" was invented by Rashmi Garg (Pleasanton, Calif.), Arun Kishore Narasani (San Jose, Calif.), Jia Fu Wu (Coquitlam, Canada) and Hien Thai (Elk Grove, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed wherein a device registers with a Secure Service Edge (SSE) upon VPN client startup to receive a policy configuring the client as a forwarding agent. The policy designates a Domain Name System (DNS) and data packet route. A tunnel is ...