US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Sept. 22 for "Proactive bypass selection based on root cause analysis of traceroutes" (Dutch, American, French, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,728, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Proactive bypass selection based on root cause analysis of traceroutes" was invented by Gregory Mermoud (Venthone, Switzerland), Jean-Philippe Vasseur (Combloux, France), Eduard Schornig (Haarlem, Netherlands) and Sambarta Dasgupta (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device identifies, based on traceroute information for a path in a network between an endpoint client and an online application, a particular segment of the path as most likely to cause degraded performance along the path. The device makes, using a pred...