ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,893, issued on March 31, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Traffic identifiers for user device profiles" was invented by Srinath Gundavelli (San Jose, Calif.), Shree N. Murthy (San Jose, Calif.), Matthew Stephen MacPherson (Cary, N.C.) and Ravi Kiran Guntupalli (Cumming, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: obtaining, at a network device from a user device, a request for a network session, the request including an indication of a user device profile; determining a traffic identifier to associate with the user device profile; binding...