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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 14, 2019
Applicant:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Om Prakash Suthar, Bolingbrook, IL (US);

Arghya Mukherjee, Acton, MA (US);

Amarnath Sury Arvind, Hinsdale, IL (US);

Aeneas Sean Dodd-Noble, Andover, MA (US);

Assignee:

CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04W 24/02 (2009.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 24/02 (2013.01); H04L 41/12 (2013.01); H04W 64/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

A network device such as a network function (NF) entity or an application function (AF) entity in a communication network monitors network traffic for a plurality of peer-to-peer transactions associated with an application, where each peer-to-peer transaction includes communications between a user and a peer in the communication network. The network device also determines a set of geographic locations corresponding to one or more peer endpoints for the plurality of peer-to-peer transactions based on the network traffic, and determines an optimal midpoint between the set of geographic locations. The network device further deploys an edge node in the communication network to serve a subsequent peer-to-peer transaction for the application based on the optimal midpoint.


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