US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Sept. 22 for "System and method of discovering and validating different network action hardware capabilities" (Canadian, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,721, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method of discovering and validating different network action hardware capabilities" was invented by Jaganbabu Rajamanickam (Kanata, Canada), Rakesh Gandhi (Stittsville, Canada), Nagendra Kumar Nainar (Morrisville, N.C.) and Madhan Sankaranarayanan (Tamil Nadu, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for validating a hardware path capability are provided. The method includes generating, at an ingress node of a network, an operations, administration and maintenance (OAM) probe packet having an OAM bit set associated with va...