US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 14 for "Predictive application-aware load-balancing based on failure uncertainty" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,896, issued on July 14, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Predictive application-aware load-balancing based on failure uncertainty" was invented by Vinay Kumar Kolar (San Jose, Calif.), Jean-Philippe Vasseur (Saint Martin d'Uriage, France) and Mukund Yelahanka Raghuprasad (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device obtains metrics for a plurality of network paths via which traffic for an online application may be conveyed. The device models, for each of the plurality of network paths, uncertainty of an application experience metric predicted for the online application across d...