US 11,924,036 B1
Automatic SAAS optimization
Darren Russell Dukes, Ottawa (CA); Jeevan Sharma, Pleasanton, CA (US); Fabio R. Maino, Palo Alto, CA (US); and Alberto Rodriguez-Natal, Leon (ES)
Assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 10, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/132,830.
Int. Cl. H04L 41/0823 (2022.01); H04L 67/10 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 41/0823 (2013.01) [H04L 67/10 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method performed at least partially by a service handler associated with a network access provider, the method comprising:
determining a software as a service (SaaS) application that is being accessed by client endpoints via the network access provider;
determining, based at least in part on a policy associated with the network access provider, whether to enable network optimizations for traffic through the network access provider to the SaaS application; and
based at least in part on a determination that the network optimizations are to be enabled for the traffic to the SaaS application, installing a service definition associated with the SaaS application in a service policy database of the network access provider.