US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Nov. 3 for "Tracking behind-the-service endpoints in a service chain" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,119, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Tracking behind-the-service endpoints in a service chain" was invented by Avinash Shah (Pleasanton, Calif.), Pradeepan Kannawadi (Dublin, Calif.) and Pritam Baruah (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for automatically orchestrating routes configured to track behind-the-service endpoints executing in association with service endpoint devices in a service chain. A network controller may be utilized to override a tracker IP address for each HA pair in a service, allowing customers to configure the tracker IP address to be provisioned ...