US Patent Issued to Fortinet on July 29 for "Remote cost based network traffic steering for heterogeneous links in a SDWAN (software defined wide area network)" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,376, issued on July 29, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Remote cost based network traffic steering for heterogeneous links in a SDWAN (software defined wide area network)" was invented by Shangwei Duan (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A health check is generated for at least two member paths between the local SDWAN controller and a remote SDWAN controller, with a set health check probe packets for transmission by the network interface to remote SDWAN controllers. A link cost is determined for each member path from a set of health check response packets received by the network interface. SDWAN netw...