US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on March 17 for "End-to-end network path visibility across cloud application environments" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,837, issued on March 17, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"End-to-end network path visibility across cloud application environments" was invented by Hans Ashlock (Berkeley, Calif.) and Indermeet Singh Gandhi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device identifies a port associated with a backend probing agent for a cloud-hosted application. The device performs external probing of a path to the cloud-hosted application by sending a probe along the path to the port, to generate external probing results. The device triggers the backend probing agent to generate backend probing re...