ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,335, issued on Sept. 23.

"Method and system of application-aware routing with crowdsourcing" was invented by Ajit Ramachandra Mayya (Saratoga, Calif.), Parag Pritam Thakore (Los Gatos, Calif.), Stephen Craig Connors (San Jose, Calif.), Sunil Mukundan (Chennai, India) and Thomas Harold Speeter (San Martin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a computerized method of an application routing service includes the step of using a deep-packet inspection (DPI) technique on a first network flow to identify an applications The method includes the step of storing an Internet-protocol (IP) address and a port number used by the ...