US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on May 5 for "End-to-end path tracing of hybrid unicast and multicast translated flows" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,248, issued on May 5, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"End-to-end path tracing of hybrid unicast and multicast translated flows" was invented by Francesco Meo (San Jose, Calif.), Sachin V Vishwarupe (Santa Clara, Calif.), Lakshmi Ramesh (San Jose, Calif.) and Roshan Lal (Gilroy, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are provided for visualizing end-to-end path traversed by a hybrid media traffic flow. Specifically, the methods involve obtaining at least one hybrid flow record that includes information about a source of a traffic flow prior to performing a network address translation for the traffic flo...