US Patent Issued to Extreme Networks on July 15 for "Packet routing based on forwarding rules in a network visibility system" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,034, issued on July 15, was assigned to Extreme Networks Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Packet routing based on forwarding rules in a network visibility system" was invented by Shailender Sharma (Bangalore, India), Rakesh Varimalla (Bangalore, India) and Sathya Narayana Pottimurthy (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are a system, method and/or computer readable storage embodiments for processing packets based on forwarding rules in a packet router of a network visibility system. In an embodiment, the packet router contains components for processing sets of packets via tags based on whitelist and forwarding r...