US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Oct. 20 for "Recommending configuration changes in software-defined networks using machine learning" (Swiss, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,597, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Recommending configuration changes in software-defined networks using machine learning" was invented by Gregory Mermoud (Venthone, Switzerland), Stephane Bernard Martin (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Jean-Philippe Vasseur (Saint Martin d'Uriage, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device associates application performance of an online application with network configuration changes implemented across one or more software-defined networks. The device trains a machine learning model to predict an effect of a configuration change on the...