ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,741, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Service level agreement based data forwarding with link aggregation grouping" was invented by Pritam Baruah (Fremont, Calif.) and Afroze Mohammad (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for providing service level agreement performance in a link aggregation group computer networking environment. A performance measurement data packet such as a bi-directional forwarding detection (BFD) packet is received. The performance measuring data packet can be considered a parent performance measurement data packet is split into m...