US Patent Issued to Headwater Research on Sept. 30 for "Flow tagging for service policy implementation" (Nevada, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,130, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Headwater Research LLC (Tyler, Texas).

"Flow tagging for service policy implementation" was invented by Gregory G. Raleigh (Incline Village, Nev.), Jeffrey Green (Sunnyvale, Calif.), James Lavine (Corte Madera, Calif.) and Vien-Phuong Nguyen (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flow tagging technique includes tagging a data flow at a plurality of points in the data flow. For example, the data flow can be tagged at a socket and at a proxy manager API. By tagging the data flow at multiple points, it becomes possible to map network service usage activities to the appropriate initiati...