US Patent Issued to Google on Nov. 4 for "Systems and methods for tunneling network traffic to apply network functions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,899, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for tunneling network traffic to apply network functions" was invented by Arivudainambi Appachi Gounder (Cupertino, Calif.), Bolei Fu (San Jose, Calif.), Stephen Stuart (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and Zhiwei Cen (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The systems and methods described herein provide a mechanism to apply network functions to a packet. The packet received by a network switch from a host may be configured so that the packet may be transmitted and forwarded to a target destination with desired network function, such as d...