ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,803, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Airbus Defence and Space SAS (Toulouse, France).
"Automatic connection of network probes" was invented by Rene Veyland (Toulouse, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first network probe is associated with a first end-point of a first router. The first network probe detects, by filtering packets coming from or going to the first router, a communication tunnel between the first end-point and a second end-point of a second router. The first network probe deduces an address of a second network probe associated with the second end-point, by applying a bijective translation function relative to an ...