US Patent Issued to 8X8 on Oct. 28 for "Region-based network address translation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,190, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to 8X8 INC. (Campbell, Calif.).

"Region-based network address translation" was invented by Mehdi Salour (Campbell, Calif.) and Raghu Rengarajan (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are disclosed for geographic region-based network address translation (NAT) between a public network and a private network. In certain examples, region-based NAT may assist to reduce latency, enhance quality, enhance security, and/or improve efficiency of network communications. In response to a data packet from a first port of a private IP address, of an endpoint in the private network...