US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 24 for "Proxy state signaling for network optimizations" (American, Romanian, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,992, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Proxy state signaling for network optimizations" was invented by Alberto Rodriguez Natal (Leon, Spain), John A. Joyce (Nashua, N.H.), Saswat Praharaj (Pleasanton, Calif.), Timothy James Swanson (Westford, Mass.), Lorand Jakab (Gheorghieni, Romania), Fabio R. Maino (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Pradeep Kumar Kathail (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for signaling, to a network controller, a connection state of a proxy for use by the network controller to correlate proxied-connections with application pairs for traffic optimization. ...