US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on May 26 for "Automated detection and configuration of protocols and ports for device access" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,057, issued on May 26, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automated detection and configuration of protocols and ports for device access" was invented by Michael Freed (Pleasanton, Calif.), Aaron Selesi (Simi Valley, Calif.), Sravanth Yajamanam (San Jose, Calif.) and Ryan Holland (Pacifica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising: measuring, by a process, a baseline of port and protocol usage of an accessing device while forwarding to a particular remote device is disabled; measuring, by the process, usage by an accessing application of specific ports and protoc...