US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on March 31 for "Inference-based selective flow inspection" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,915, issued on March 31, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Inference-based selective flow inspection" was invented by Andrew E Ossipov (Lewisville, Texas) and James W. Kasper (Leander, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for augmenting deep packet inspection capabilities of a network security device provisioned in a networked computing environment with inference-based flow selection to focus processing resources on network traffic that is likely to be malicious. The network device(s) may receive decryption policies comprising one or more decrypt and/or do not decrypt rules for applying the decryp...