ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,126, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Distributed IPsec gateway" was invented by Yongqiang Xiong (Beijing), Chih-Yung Wang (Beijing) and Jeongseok Son (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides technical solutions related to distributed IPSec gateway. A control plane and a data plane of the IPSec gateway are divided, a plurality of gateway processing nodes may be run in the data plane to process data packets of incoming ESP/AH traffic and/or data packets of outgoing IP traffic. IKE information interaction may be handled in the control plane and the t...