ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,907, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Validating network flows in a multi-tenanted network appliance routing service" was invented by Dheerendra Talur (Sammamish, Wash.), Milind Madhukar Kulkarni (Sammamish, Wash.) and Lee Spencer Dillard (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided to add flow validation information to packets of network traffic. Each packet can have flow validation information added corresponding to the source and destination of the packet. A stateful network routing service may intercept packets and obtain or generate flow validation information base...