US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Nov. 25 for "Systems and methods for data plane validation of multiple paths in a network" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,493, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for data plane validation of multiple paths in a network" was invented by Amila Pradeep Kumara Tharaperiya Gamage (Kanata, Canada), Rakesh Gandhi (Stittsville, Canada) and Zafar Ali (Hicksville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for validating multiple paths used for routing network traffic in a network. In one aspect, a network controller can identify one or more intermediate nodes on each of multiple paths in a network, wherein the multiple paths begin at a first networ...