ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,347, issued on Sept. 23.

"Methods and apparatus for application aware hub clustering techniques for a hyper scale SD-WAN" was invented by Navaneeth Krishnan Ramaswamy (Chennai, India) and Gopa Kumar (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a method for a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) connecting first and second sites, with the first site including an edge node and the second site including multiple forwarding hub nodes. At the edge node of the first site, the method receives a packet of a particular flow including a flow attribute. The method uses the flow attribute to identify a hub-se...