US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Sept. 8 for "Coordinating packet and state extraction across devices using control/data plane signaling" (Canadian, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,425, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Coordinating packet and state extraction across devices using control/data plane signaling" was invented by Jaganbabu Rajamanickam (Kanata, Canada), Madhan Sankaranarayanan (Chinnamanur, India), David John Zacks (Vancouver, Canada) and Mark Ammar Rayes (Alamo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for capturing device state information from multiple network devices when a network error occurs are described. A network controller determines a trigger event and a trigger action. The trigger action is an action to be taken by a network device in...