US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on May 12 for "Physical layer metadata carrier for ethernet systems" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,601, issued on May 12, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Physical layer metadata carrier for ethernet systems" was invented by David John Zacks (Vancouver, Canada), Thomas Szigeti (Vancouver, Canada), Barry Qi Yuan (Vancouver, Canada) and Robert Edgar Barton (Richmond, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for, among other things, embedding metadata in network traffic without having to implement an overlay network. By way of example, and not limitation, the techniques described herein may include receiving an Ethernet packet at a network node and determining that a preamble of the Ethernet packet in...