US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 28 for "Traffic-based tunnel endpoint assignment for local area networks" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,170, issued on July 28, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Traffic-based tunnel endpoint assignment for local area networks" was invented by Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Robert Edgar Barton (Richmond, Canada) and Indermeet Gandhi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network function orchestrator (NFO) of a local area network (LAN) controller can configure multiple different tunnel endpoints in the LAN based on network traffic observed within the LAN. The NFO can monitor network traffic communicated from client devices and through access points in the LAN. The network traffic can be associated ...