US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on June 30 for "Assurance of security rules in a network" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,142, issued on June 30, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Assurance of security rules in a network" was invented by Advait Dixit (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Navneet Yadav (Cupertino, Calif.), Navjyoti Sharma (Livermore, Calif.), Ramana Rao Kompella (Cupertino, Calif.) and Kartik Mohanram (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a system creates a requirement including EPG selectors representing EPG pairs, a traffic selector, and a communication operator; determines that EPGs in distinct pairs are associated with different network contexts and, for each pair, which network context(s) contains asso...