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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2024
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Prakash C Jain, Fremont, CA (US);
Sanjay Kumar Hooda, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Vinay Saini, Bangalore, IN;
Pascal Thubert, Roquefort les Pins, FR;
Arman Rezaee, San Francisco, CA (US);
Samer M. Salam, Beirut, LB;
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, dynamic multi-cloud network provisioning is provided by an illustrative method comprising: identifying, by a process, source security groups associated with devices of a computer network; determining, by the process and based on observation of packets sourced from the devices, a set of destinations of the packets sourced from the devices; deducing, by the process, destination security groups associated with the devices based on the set of destinations used in the packets sourced from the devices; identifying, by the process, cloud services currently utilized by the devices based on the source security groups and the destination security groups; and establishing, by the process, a dynamic provisioning configuration for the computer network based on the cloud services currently utilized by the devices in the computer network.