Cisco Patent Grants

Federated provisioning on multiple core networks based on unique device identifiers

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12279201
A system and method for provisioning devices on respective LTE or 5G network cores using a hierarchical provisioning connector. Maintained by a connectivity management platform, a hierarchical provisioning connector serving as an extension of a single provisioning connector of the customer account, such that the hierarchical provisioning connector may contain an array of single provisioning connectors. A rule processor that is utilized by the hierarchical provisioning connector to…

Predicting future network issues for users with digital model personas

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12278879
A network management system tests the availability of a network resource before a user performs a task with the network resource. The system measures network activity of a user performing one or more tasks. The network activity includes communication between a user device of the user and each network resource associated with a corresponding task performed by the user. The system also generates a digital model persona of the user based on the tasks performed by the user, and determines a…

Congestion management in controllers

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12278765
This disclosure describes techniques and mechanisms for managing congestion within a network with a controller. The techniques include identifying a first designated memory location from which a first destination device reads first data, identifying a second designated memory location from which a second destination device reads second data, writing the first data to the first designated memory location, incrementing, based at least in part on writing the first data, a write index;…

Auto update of sensor configuration

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12278746
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for updating configurations in sensors deployed in multi-layer virtualized environments. In some examples, a system can track information of sensors and collectors in the network. In response to determining that a specific collector becomes unavailable (e.g., the specific collector is down, offline or becomes unsupported), the system can determine affected sensors corresponding to the specific collector, determine a new collector among active…

Runtime container protection

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12277446
According to certain embodiments, a method comprises monitoring a request for use of memory requested by a container manager application on behalf of a given one of a plurality of containers during runtime of the given container. The method further comprises determining that the request for use of memory has caused an exception. The exception indicates that the request has requested an invalid operation on a memory table or that the request has requested a previously not seen memory…

Security policies for software call stacks

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12277211
The present disclosure provides systems, methods, and computer-readable media for implementing security polices at software call stack level. In one example, a method includes generating a call stack classification scheme for an application, detecting a call stack during deployment of the application; using the call stack classification scheme during runtime of the application, classifying the detected call stack as one of an authorized call stack or an unauthorized call stack to yield a…

Runtime security analytics for serverless workloads

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12277210
Runtime security threats are detected and analyzed for serverless functions developed for hybrid clouds or other cloud-based deployment environments. One or more serverless functions may be received and executed within a container instance executing in a controlled and monitored environment. The execution of the serverless functions is monitored, using a monitoring layer in the controlled environment to capture runtime data including container application context statistics, serverless…

Electrical test of optical components via metal-insulator-semiconductor capacitor structures

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12276565
Electrical test of optical components via metal-insulator-semiconductor capacitor structures is provided via a plurality of optical devices including a first material embedded in a second material, wherein each optical device is associated with a different thickness range of a plurality of thickness ranges for the first material; a first capacitance measurement point including the first material embedded in the second material; and a second capacitance measurement point including a…

Prioritized scheduling for UWB ranging

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12273787
Presented herein are techniques for scheduling Ultra-Wideband (UWB) anchors and mobile devices for client ranging. A control device can determine respective ranging priorities for a plurality of mobile devices, which are each assigned to at least one UWB anchor. The control device can obtain at least one collision mapping identifying, for a respective pair of the mobile devices, a collision probability that a UWB signal associated with a ranging procedure involving a first mobile device…

Method and apparatus for performing random access

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12273921
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for wireless communications are provided. A method may comprise receiving, by a wireless device from a base station, one or more messages comprising downlink control information (DCI) associated with a DCI format; determining that a first field of the DC corresponds to a predefined value, determining that, based on the first field corresponding to the predefined value, the DCI is for a random access procedure associated with a physical downlink control…

Providing an operator-encrypted partial user equipment route selection policy to user equipment

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12273705
Presented herein are techniques to provide an operator-encrypted application specific user equipment (UE) route selection policy (URSP) to a UE via different network elements and/or distribution techniques. In one example, a method may include obtaining, by a network element, a policy object from a policy function of a mobile network operated by a mobile network operator, wherein the policy object comprises an application specific user equipment route selection policy (URSP) for an…

User-defined quality of experience (QoE) prioritizations

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12273406
A method includes, at a media bridge configured to distribute a plurality of media streams among a plurality of client devices connected to the media bridge over a network during a real-time communication (RTC) instance, receiving a plurality of quality of experience (QoE) preferences from the plurality of client devices via the media bridge, the plurality of QoE preferences being transmitted as a real-time transport protocol (RTP) control protocol (RTCP) extension header of a…

Symmetric networking for orphan workloads in cloud networks

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12273267
Symmetric networking techniques disclosed herein can be applied by gateway routers in cloud networks. The techniques can ensure that both outbound traffic received at a cloud from a branch device and return traffic directed from the cloud back to the branch device are processed by a same gateway router. The gateway router can use network address translation to insert IP addresses from an inside pool and an outside pool assigned to the router.

Network node-to-node connectivity verification including data path processing of packets within a packet switching device

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12273254
In one embodiment, network node-to-node connectivity verification is performed in a network including data path processing of packets within a packet switching device. In one embodiment, an echo request connectivity test packet, emulating an echo request connectivity test packet received from a first connected network node, is inserted by the packet switching device prior in its data processing path prior to ingress processing performed for packets received from the first connected…

Energy-aware traffic forwarding and loop avoidance

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12273239
Energy-aware configurations can be utilized to operate a network based on sustainability-related metrics. In many embodiments, a suitable device includes a processor, a memory commutatively coupled to the processor, a plurality of elements, a communication port, and an energy-aware topology logic configured to collect topology data from one or more network devices, wherein each of the one or more network devices include a plurality of elements. The energy-aware topology logic can receive…

Efficient BIER forwarding over varying BSL domain using header stitching

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12273187
The present disclosure is directed to BIER forwarding over varying BSL domains, the methods including the steps of receiving, at a border node, a packet comprising a BIER header having a BIER bit string with a first bit string length; reading an incoming label of the packet comprising instructions to split the BIER header into a plurality of smaller headers associated with a plurality of smaller bit strings; generating a set of split bit masks; performing a separate bitwise AND operation…

Automatic out of vocabulary word detection in speech recognition

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12272351
Presented herein are systems and methods are presented for detecting out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words in an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system, determining an intended word for the OOV, and adding the intended word to a repository of words. A method may involve receiving audio input data including a series of spoken words; determining that one of the spoken words is an out of vocabulary word absent from a repository of words; generating word candidates based on characteristics of the…

Infrastructure triggering techniques to facilitate secure ultra-wideband (UWB) ranging

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12270888
Presented herein are infrastructure triggering techniques for secure Ultra-Wideband (UWB) ranging. In one example, a method may include providing UWB ranging parameters to a mobile device via a first radio communication, wherein the first radio communication is a non-UWB radio communication; and triggering the mobile device to perform UWB ranging with a UWB anchor, wherein the triggering is performed using a second radio communication. In another example, a method may include, obtaining,…

Conferencing device

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: D1069756

Verifying the trust-worthiness of ARP senders and receivers using attestation-based methods

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12267357
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for assessing reliability and trustworthiness of devices operating within a network. An ARP responder can receive an ARP request from an ARP requestor for performing address resolution between the ARP requestor and the ARP responder in a network environment. The ARP responder can build an ARP response including attestation information of the ARP responder. Further, the ARP responder can provide, to the ARP requestor, the attestation…