US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Nov. 3 for "Systems and methods for classifying traffic in a hierarchical SD-WAN network" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,130, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for classifying traffic in a hierarchical SD-WAN network" was invented by Jigar Parekh (Fremont, Calif.), Mrigendra Patel (Milpitas, Calif.), Sanjay Sreenath (San Jose, Calif.), Laxmikantha Reddy Ponnuru (San Ramon, Calif.), Satyajit Das (Lake Tapps, Wash.), Kaiyuan Xu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Hari Krishna Donti (Dublin, Calif.), Tahir Ali (San Jose, Calif.) and Hamzah Shuaib Kardame (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a network node, traffic within a hierarchical software-defin...