US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on June 23 for "Network observability solution for detecting routing anomalies" (Canadian, Belgian, Italian, French, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,840, issued on June 23, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Network observability solution for detecting routing anomalies" was invented by Clarence Filsfils (Brussels), Rakesh Gandhi (Stittsville, Canada), Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Abdelsalam (L'Aquila, Italy), Pablo Camarillo Garvia (Madrid) and Sonia Ben Ayed (Vanves, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a method is disclosed comprising: identifying, based on path tracing probes sent through a network, data plane forwarding paths between nodes in the network; determining, based on topology data for the network, expected protocol-based paths...