US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Jan. 28 for "Flexible distribution of flow state management workloads among isolated exception-path cells of packet processing services" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,496, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Flexible distribution of flow state management workloads among isolated exception-path cells of packet processing services" was invented by Sujogya Banerjee (Kenmore, Wash.), Shine Mohamed Jabbar (San Ramon, Calif.) and Mahesh Elireddy (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fast-path node of a packet processing service receives a packet of a forward-direction flow. The node obtains an exception-path routing rule from an exception-path routing rule source. The node sends a query to an exception-path cell of the service based on the routing rule, a...