MUMBAI, India, June 27 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517054594 A) filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, U.S.A., on June 6, for 'service optimization in networks and cloud interconnects.'

Inventor(s) include Sundararajan, Balaji; Nataraj, Venkatesh; Kumar, Kannan; Nallur, Padmanabha; Jain, Abha; and Patel, Kushal.

The application for the patent was published on June 27, under issue no. 26/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "This disclosure describes techniques and mechanisms for disclosure describes techniques and mechanisms for optimizing firewall enforcement. The techniques may implement a dynamic detection of Layer 7 processing at one end of the network, alleviating the need to enforce another layer 7 firewall inspection at the other end, thereby saving processing and network resources. The techniques enable firewalls and policies to be statically defined and located in one place."

The patent application was internationally filed on Nov. 30, 2023, under International application No.PCT/US2023/081864.

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