Cisco Patent Grants

Adaptive wireless network feature support

Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12219583
Techniques to adaptively support/enable a wireless network feature for certain wireless client devices without hampering the performance or connectivity of wireless client devices which do not support that wireless network feature. An access point or wireless network controller adaptively enables a wireless network feature without advertising support for the wireless network feature in a wireless network-standard compliant manner to allow one or more wireless clients that support the…

Systems and methods for power saving in directed multicast service

Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12219486
In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a transmitter for communicating with a client, a receiver, and a controller coupled with the transmitter and receiver, wherein the controller is operable to receive a proxy from the client for traffic from a source and transmit a join to the source on behalf of the client.

Signaling optimization for location-based user plane services

Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12219440
The present disclosure is directed to systems and techniques for improved signaling of subscriber information and updates thereto for one or more location-based user plane services. In one examples, the systems and techniques can include determining the existence of a converged User Plane Function (UPF) comprising a Serving Gateway User Plane (SGW-U) session and a Packet Data Network (PDN) Gateway User Plane (PGW-U) session. In response to determining the existence of the converged UPF,…

Inter-network short message service among private and public 5G networks

Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12219437
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for inter-network messaging among private and public 5G networks. For instance, a first server on a public 5G mobile network can receive a first message directed to a first wireless device associated with a first network identity. The first server can determine, based on the first network identity, that the first wireless device is associated with a second network identity, wherein the second network identity is used to identify…

Quality of experience reporting over non-access stratum (NAS) signaling

Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12219383
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for reporting QoE of a UE, as measured and determined from the perspective of the UE to one or more core components of the cellular network to which the UE is attached. The QoE may then be used by the one or more core components for managing and adjusting, if necessary, the cellular services provided to the UE. In one aspect, a method includes determining, at a user device, a quality of experience (QoE) of user device…

Management of an adaptive relay method for lost-device bluetooth low energy signaling

Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12219357
Techniques and apparatus for managing a message relaying system are described. One technique includes an access point (AP) detecting a first signal and a second signal from a computing device. A validation of the first signal is performed based on parameters of the first signal and the second signal. After the validation, information associated with the first signal is transmitted to a computing system. In another technique, the computing system may designate one of multiple APs…

Collaboration application integration for user-identity verification

Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12218931
Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable media for utilizes a collaboration application to provide data beneficial to the authentication of the user. The present application discloses receiving at least one item of personal identifying information for a user from a primary multi-factor authentication device. The present application further discloses receiving at least one item of personal identifying information for a user from a conferencing service in which…

Distributed diagnostics for network wide route policy analyzer and other use cases

Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number: 12212450
Presented herein are techniques to perform call failure diagnostics. A method includes receiving, at a network device, an indication of calls-of-interest, detecting, at the network device, a failure of one of the calls-of-interest, triggering, in response to the detecting, at the network device, diagnostics data analysis of data associated with the failure of one of the calls-of-interest, determining, based on the diagnostics data analysis, a cause of the failure of the one of the…

In-band metadata for authenticity and role-based access in enterprise video streaming services

Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number: 12212819
A device receives a video stream, where one or more frames of the video stream include embedded metadata that is embedded directly into the one or more frames. The device extracts the embedded metadata from the one or more frames. The device makes an authentication determination regarding the video stream, based on whether the embedded metadata includes a digital signature associated with a sender of the video stream. The device controls, based on the authentication determination,…

Network issue tracking and resolution system

Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number: 12212451
In one embodiment, an issue analysis service obtains telemetry data from a plurality of devices in a network across a plurality of time intervals. The service detects a failure event in which a device in the network is in a failure state. The service clusters the telemetry data obtained prior to the failure event into rounds according to time intervals in which the telemetry data was collected. Each round corresponds to a particular time interval. The service applies a machine…

Conferencing device

Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number: D1059328

Method and system for managing network-to-network interconnection

Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number: 12212434
This disclosure describes methods and systems to externally manage network-to-network interconnect configuration data in conjunction with a centralized database subsystem. An example of the methods includes receiving and storing, in the centralized database subsystem, data indicative of user intent to interconnect at least a first network and a second network. The example method further includes, based at least in part on the data indicative of user intent, determining and storing, in…

Systems and methods for preventing solicited-node multicast address collisions

Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number: 12212427
A method includes receiving, at a first edge node, an Internet Protocol (IP) multicast address of a first silent host node. The method further includes receiving, at a second edge node, an IP multicast address of a second silent host node. The IP multicast address of the first silent host node is equal to the IP multicast address of the second silent host node. The method further includes storing the IP multicast address of the first and second silent host node in a shared entry of a…

Systems and methods for supporting mixed IGMP querier versions

Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number: 12212426
According to some embodiments, an Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) includes a first router configured as an Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) version 3 querier and a second router configured as an IGMP version 2 querier. The second router is configured to receive a Selective Multicast Ethernet (SMET) route message generated by the first router. The SMET route message includes an IGMP version 3 join request from a receiver, and the IGMP version 3 join request includes an…

Method and apparatus of scheduling for device to device (D2D) communication

Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number: 12212415
Exemplary embodiments provide a method and apparatus for supporting a device-to-device (D2D) communication between user equipments (UEs), the method including: generating, at an evolved NodeB (eNB), D2D scheduling assignment (D2D SA) grant; transmitting the generated D2D SA grant to a transmission (Tx) UTE, the D2D SA grant enabling the Tx UE to transmit an SA to a reception (Rx) UE through a D2D communication; generating, at the eNB, a D2D data grant; transmitting the generated D2D data…

Improving radio frequency (RF) performance by optimizing temperature in an access point (AP) ecosystem

Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number: 12212350
Improved Radio Frequency (RF) performance by optimizing temperature may be provided. A plurality of heatmaps may be created associating a plurality of component heat characteristics, of a plurality of components of a device, with a plurality of pre-defined performance trade-off states. Next, a shortest path through the plurality of pre-defined performance trade-off states may be determined. The device may then be placed in successive ones of the plurality of pre-defined performance…

Systems and methods for detecting and tracking infectious diseases using sensor data

Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number: 12211625
An example method for identifying and reporting a space or individual that has been exposed to an infectious disease includes identifying sensor data related to one or more individuals in a space; determining, based on the sensor data, that a particular individual among the one or more individuals is infected with an infectious disease; generating a report requesting that the space be disinfected; and outputting the report to a computing device.

Systems and methods for providing confidence in an oracle

Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number: 12210513
Presented herein are techniques for verifying data. A method can include obtaining, from an oracle, a first data set associated with a distributed ledger. The method further includes obtaining a plurality of data sets from a plurality of sources. The method further includes generating a confidence level regarding the first data set for validating the first data set, based on comparing the first data set to the plurality of data sets. The method further includes storing the first data set…

Integration of power and optics through cold plates for delivery to electronic and photonic integrated circuits

Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number: 12210199
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes an upper cold plate and a lower cold plate, at least one of the upper cold plate or the lower cold plate comprising an electrical or optical path extending therethrough, a substrate and die package interposed between the upper cold plate or the lower cold plate, and a connector coupled to one of the upper cold plate or the lower cold plate for transmitting power or an optical signal through the electrical or optical path to the substrate and die…

Configurable bi-directional airflow fan

Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number: 12209596
Various devices, systems, and methods are described herein that provide bi-directional, and even multi-directional airflow within fan systems. These fan systems can be utilized by devices such as datacenter switches to change from one direction of airflow (such as port side inlet) to another direction (such as port side exhaust). This can be done manually by having a multi-directional fan housed within an enclosure that provides access through a hatch door. The multi-directional fan can…