US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on April 1 for "Packet replication and usage monitoring in a network environment" (Virginia, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,247, issued on April 1, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Packet replication and usage monitoring in a network environment" was invented by Carl Klatsky (Yardley, Pa.), De Fu Li (Nashua, N.H.), Jason Combs (Cherry Hill, N.J.), Aju Francis Kalarickal (Chantilly, Va.), Jimit Salvi (Reston, Va.), Basil Baby (Chantilly, Va.) and Himalay Gopu (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for replicating data packets at individual compute (e.g., VCMTS) nodes and sending the replicated data packets to a gateway via a tunneling protocol. The gateway determines tra...