US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Sept. 22 for "IPSEC sequence synchronization and recovery in software-defined wide area network(s)" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,086, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"IPSEC sequence synchronization and recovery in software-defined wide area network(s)" was invented by Qingguo Zhang (Beijing), Shuang Han (Da Lian, China), Bo Gao (Da Lian, China) and Changhong Shen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques and mechanisms for providing an automatic and lightweight solution to detect and resolve session stuck failure(s) due to erroneous anti-replay packet drops in SDWAN networks. The techniques may operate in a data plane of the network devices, such as part of an anti-replay featur...