US Patent Issued to Gigamon on July 29 for "Distributed packet deduplication" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,373, issued on July 29, was assigned to Gigamon Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Distributed packet deduplication" was invented by Anil Rao (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Introduced here are network visibility appliances capable of implementing a distributed deduplication scheme by routing traffic amongst multiple instances of a deduplication program. Data traffic can be forwarded to a pool of multiple network visibility appliances that collectively ensure no duplicate copies of data packets exist in the data traffic. The network visibility appliances can route the traffic to different instances of the deduplication ...