US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on Dec. 30 for "Inline dynamic network address and port translation (NAPT)" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,105, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Inline dynamic network address and port translation (NAPT)" was invented by Jitendra Kumar Singh (Bangalore, India), Andrzej W. Szyszko (Holden, Mass.) and Rohan Meegada (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "NAPT services are provided, preferably inline on the "fast path" on bundled links. One of the member links is selected as "anchor." When uplink traffic arrives on the any of the member links, the link's forwarding path looks to the NAPT binding entry in its forwarding path. If a binding entry is found, NAPT is performed in an inline man...