US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on June 2 for "Network segmentation in multi-site computer networks" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,344, issued on June 2, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Network segmentation in multi-site computer networks" was invented by Prakash C. Jain (Fremont, Calif.), Sanjay Kumar Hooda (Pleasanton, Calif.), Kedar Sudhir Karmarkar (San Jose, Calif.) and Aaditya Nitin Vadnere (Indore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for enabling multiple subnets across multiple fabric sites and associated with multiple network segments (e.g., virtual networks (VNs)) to communicate with each other using a shared network infrastructure, such as a service provider network. In some cases, the te...