US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Oct. 27 for "Symmetric NAT detection and connectivity support" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,016, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Symmetric NAT detection and connectivity support" was invented by Balaji Sundararajan (Fremont, Calif.), Diana Laura Serrano Lozano (Wylie, Texas), Sourav Sen (San Jose, Calif.), Sheikh Muhammad Qumruzzaman (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Sampath Kumar Sthothra Bhasham (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein can detect sites at which symmetric network address translation (NAT) is employed and can manage network traffic to support data connections to devices at the detected symmetric NAT sites. During a detection stage,...