US Patent Issued to MetaSwitch Networks on May 13 for "Packet processing" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,694, issued on May 13, was assigned to MetaSwitch Networks Ltd. (Enfield, Great Britain).

"Packet processing" was invented by Matthew Ian Ronald Williams (London), Richard John Whitehouse (London), Christopher Neil Swindle (Biggieswade, Great Britain) and Colin Reynolds (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In operation, packets traverse the packet processing data structure, and the network processing represented by each object in the data structure is applied to each packet. From time to time, the packet processing data structure may need to be updated. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for lock-free u...