US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 1 for "Stateless network address privacy (SNAP)" (Maryland, North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,417, issued on July 1, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc..

"Stateless network address privacy (SNAP)" was invented by Eric A. Voit (Bethesda, Md.), David Maluf (Mountain View, Calif.), Matthew S MacPherson (Apex, N.C.), Sri Gundavelli (San Jose, Calif.) and Ali Sajassi (Alamo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Stateless network address privacy may be provided. A data packing may be received with an obfuscated destination address and an un-obfuscated source address. An un-obfuscated destination address may be determined based on the obfuscated destination address. An obfuscated source address may be determined based on the un-ob...