ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,763, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Innovium Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Visibility sampling" was invented by Bruce Hui Kwan (Santa Clara, Calif.), William Brad Matthews (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Puneet Agarwal (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In response to certain events in a network device, visibility packets may be generated. A visibility packet may be or comprise at least a portion of a packet that is in some way associated with the event, such as a packet that was dropped as a result of an event, or that was in a queue at the time of an event related to that queue. A visibility packet may be tagged or othe...