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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2024
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Amjad Inamdar, Karnataka, IN;
Syed Arslan Ahmed, Karnataka, IN;
Raj Venkatesan, Mill Valley, CA (US);
Ankur Bhargava, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Ashish Sood, Cupertino, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure describes techniques and mechanisms for enabling and enforcing user behavior aware policies within an enterprise network. The techniques include receiving flow data and learning network traffic patterns and user behavior patterns of user(s) of the network. The techniques map user(s) to behavior group(s) based on forecast(s) and historical data of network conditions and/or user behavior patterns. The techniques monitor the flow data and dynamically re-map user(s) to new behavior group(s) based on real-time user behavior and/or real-time network conditions. Mapping(s) and/or updated mapping(s) and user behavior aware policies may be sent to edge device(s) for enforcement. The edge device(s) may dynamically prioritize a link, de-prioritize a link, block traffic, drop traffic etc. for user(s). The techniques may extend application aware and user aware routing policies to account for dynamic user behavior and network conditions, provide improved application experience and network utilization.