US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on March 24 for "Interworking between different layer two medias using network tunnels" (Austrian, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,412, issued on March 24, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Interworking between different layer two medias using network tunnels" was invented by Christian Schmutzer (Koenigsbrunn im Weinviertel, Austria), Onkar R. Deshpande (Bangalore, India) and Patrick J. Cunningham (Pembroke, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Interworking between different layer two (L2) medias using network tunnels is provided by receiving, at a virtual gateway network element (GNE), a packet from a first L2 media type network for transmission to a second L2 media type network under the control of a different entities, wherein the fi...