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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2023
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Grégory Mermoud, Venthône, CH;
Jean-Philippe Vasseur, Combloux, FR;
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a device obtains a set of probing motifs. Each probing motif groups similar patterns of path probing results for one or more path metrics in a network. The device generates signatures for the set of probing motifs. Each signature relates a probing strategy with a measure of performance of a classifier to detect that motif were path probing to be conducted in accordance with that probing strategy. The device selects, based on the signatures for the set of probing motifs, a particular probing strategy to use in the network. The device causes one or more probing agents in the network to conduct path probing in accordance with the particular probing strategy.