US Patent Issued to Arbor Networks on Feb. 10 for "System and method for detecting dropped aggregated traffic metadata packets" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. RE50,794, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Arbor Networks Inc. (Westford, Mass.).

"System and method for detecting dropped aggregated traffic metadata packets" was invented by Andrew Lee Adams (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Cameron T. Hanover (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving summary messages summarizing respective aggregated traffic metadata packets output from the at least one traffic management device and an engine. Each summary message identifies an origination pair having a traffic management device and an aggregation engine and a sequence number. The method further includes tracking per subinterval...