ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,102, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Identifying traffic sensitive interfaces and triggering configuration changes" was invented by Mukund Yelahanka Raghuprasad (San Jose, Calif.), Jean-Philippe Vasseur (Combloux, France) and Vinay Kumar Kolar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device obtains quality of experience metrics for an online application whose traffic traverses a particular interface of a router located at a first site in a network. The device identifies a correlation between throughput of the particular interface and the quality of experience me...