US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on May 13 for "Techniques for fetching application data to be used in path selection" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,447, issued on May 13, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Techniques for fetching application data to be used in path selection" was invented by Syed Arslan Ahmed (Bengaluru, India), Jegan Kumaar Somi Ramasamy Subramanian (Mountain View, Calif.) and Rahul Ramachandran (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for retrieving application status data from a service provider and making a path selection based on that application status data. In some embodiments, the techniques may comprise receiving a request to access an application hosted by a service provider, generating a fi...