ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,243, issued on May 5, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Cross-layer application network flow adaptation" was invented by Giovanna Carofiglio (Paris), Luca Muscariello (Paris), Jordan Francois Jean Auge (Saint-Cyr-l-Ecole, France), Mauro Sardara (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France) and Michele Papalini (Issy les Moulineaux, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an agent executed on a device receives performance metrics regarding a transport layer of the device. The agent sends the performance metrics to an application executed on the device. The application makes, based on the performance metrics, a ...