ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,499, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).
"Load balancing and session persistence in packet networks" was invented by Chia J. Liu (Marlton, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A node may generate a data packet comprising an Internet Protocol (IP) header and a destination options extension header (DOEH). The DOEH may comprise one or more data fields and an IP payload. The node may send the data packet to another node in a data network."
The patent was filed on July 28, 2022, under Application No. 17/876,074.
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