MUMBAI, India, July 7 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617069958 A) filed by Cisco Technology, Inc. on June 04, 2026, for Tracking Behind-The-Service Endpoints In A Service Chain.
Inventors include Shah, Avinash; Kannawadi, Pradeepan; and Baruah, Pritam.
The application for the patent was published on July 03, 2026, under issue no. 27/2026.
Abstract: Techniques for automatically orchestrating routes configured to track behind-the-service endpoints executing in association with service endpoint devices in a service chain. A network controller may be utilized to override a tracker IP address for each HA pair in a service, allowing customers to configure the tracker IP address to be provisioned behind a service they wish to track, such that packets containing the tracker IP address will be forced to go through the service itself, allowing the network to gauge a status of the service (e.g., up, down, etc.). The network controller may be configured to automatically orchestrate a route that causes packets addressed to a service endpoint device hosting a service through an outgoing interface of the endpoint device, into the service, and to a behind-the- service IP address. These techniques may be utilized with tunnel connected services and/or services connected over physical interface(s) (e.g., IPv4 and/or IPv6).
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