US Patent Issued to Fortinet on Aug. 5 for "Distributed node discovery and overlay path management on a data communication network" (New Zealander, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,777, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Distributed node discovery and overlay path management on a data communication network" was invented by Stephen John Bevan (Auckland, New Zealand) and Dmitry Perets (Bologna, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An initial provisioning by a management plane of the SD-WAN is received from a centralized SD-WAN gateway with static path overlay between the network edge device on a local LAN and the centralized SD-WAN gateway. At runtime, intelligent decision are made about which overlay path to select and when for the new flow over a control plane of the SD-WAN, ba...