US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 28 for "Software-defined service insertion for network fabrics" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,702, issued on July 28, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Software-defined service insertion for network fabrics" was invented by Victor Manuel Moreno (Carlsbad, Calif.), Sanjay Kumar Hooda (Pleasanton, Calif.), Anoop Vetteth (Fremont, Calif.) and Prakash C. Jain (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for software-defined service insertion. The techniques include a method of configuring a network for service insertion. The techniques include processing a master policy correlating an endpoint group pair, of source endpoint group and destination endpoint group, to a service graph. The servic...