ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,483, issued on March 4, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Network connection monitoring" was invented by Alberto Pena Villanueva (Ashburn, Va.) and Ezequiel Lara Gomez (Dublin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In networks, some communication links may be provided as part of a network overlay. Technologies are disclosed for monitoring/analyzing targeted networks (e.g., network overlays) using probe packets sent from outside of the targeted networks/overlays. The probe packets are configured to include a stack of headers, including indications of UDP source ports, which are respectively examined in order at network devi...