US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on May 26 for "Extensions to simple two-way active measurement protocol packets" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,004, issued on May 26, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Extensions to simple two-way active measurement protocol packets" was invented by Rakesh Gandhi (Stittsville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a device may obtain a Simple Two-way Active Measurement Protocol test packet that includes hop-by-hop data collected by the Simple Two-way Active Measurement Protocol test packet along its path. The device may determine whether the Simple Two-way Active Measurement Protocol test packet includes an instruction to reflect the hop-by-hop data back to an originating session sender. The devi...