US Patent Issued to Extreme Networks on April 1 for "Offline, intelligent load balancing of SCTP traffic" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,241, issued on April 1, was assigned to Extreme Networks Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Offline, intelligent load balancing of SCTP traffic" was invented by Jude Pragash Vedam (Bangalore, India), Suresh Paruchuri (Bangalore, India) and Deepak Hegde (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for enabling offline, intelligent load balancing of Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) traffic are provided. According to one embodiment, a load balancer can receive one or more SCTP packets that have been replicated from a network being monitored. The load balancer can further recover an SCTP message from the one or more SCTP...