US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Oct. 20 for "Using DPU devices and EBPF programs to add metadata for security and observability" (New Hampshire, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,669, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Using DPU devices and EBPF programs to add metadata for security and observability" was invented by Kyle Andrew Donald Mestery (Woodbury, Minn.) and Vincent Parla (North Hampton, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for adding in-band metadata with a data flow. The in-band metadata can be based on observations by an extended Berkley packet filter (eBPF) of an application running in a datacenter, for example. A processor executes the application to generate data that is encoded in the payloads of packets in a data flow to...