US Patent Issued to eBay on June 17 for "Linked packet tracing for software load balancers" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,148, issued on June 17, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Linked packet tracing for software load balancers" was invented by Bo Zhang (Pudong District, China), Shenghui Yang (Pudong New District, China), Bin Sun (Pudong New District, China), Nanxiang Mei (Pudong New District, China) and Charles Li (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Linked packet tracing techniques for software load balancers are described, as leveraging a client identifier generated to link packet traces between packets of a service provider system. In one example, a client-side packet is received from a client device by a processing syste...