US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on June 2 for "Techniques for improving bi-directional path selection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,350, issued on June 2, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Techniques for improving bi-directional path selection" was invented by Pritam Baruah (Fremont, Calif.), Satish Mahadevan (San Ramon, Calif.), Avinash Shah (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Sanjay Sreenath (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for providing bi-directional path selection based on indicated path preferences in policy data. Such techniques may be performed by a network node and may comprise generating a set of paths to a destination, a first path of the set of paths being labeled as a direct path and a seco...