US Patent Issued to F5 on July 1 for "Methods for managing insertion of metadata into a data stream to assist with analysis of network traffic and devices thereof" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,393, issued on July 1, was assigned to F5 Inc. (Seattle).

"Methods for managing insertion of metadata into a data stream to assist with analysis of network traffic and devices thereof" was invented by Peter Binder (Seattle), Vutrala Narayana (Seattle), Saxon Amdahl (San Jose, Calif.) and Pete Thornewell (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, network traffic manager apparatuses, and systems includes receiving a plurality of network packets. Metadata comprising state information for the received plurality of network packets is generated. The generated metadata is inserted into the receiv...