ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,406, issued on July 29, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"Virtual socket for load balancing and failover" was invented by Linghan Cai (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect of the instant application can provide a system and method for balancing load among multiple network sockets established between a local node and a remote node. During operation, the system can encapsulate the multiple network sockets to form a local transport-layer virtual socket comprising a write interface and a read interface. The system can receive, at the write interface of the local transport-la...