ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,393, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"Hardware-triggered traffic mirroring" was invented by Giuseppe Scaglione (Granite Bay, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for facilitating packet mirroring triggered by a hardware module of a switch is provided. During operation, the hardware module can process a received packet and determine whether the processing of the packet changes a state of the hardware module. If a change to the state is detected, the hardware module can determine whether the changed state of the hardware module satisfies a trigger condition for ini...