US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Dec. 30 for "Expanding connection tables in smart switches in SDN networks" (Georgia, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,083, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Expanding connection tables in smart switches in SDN networks" was invented by Gerald Roy De Grace (Atlanta) and James Allen Grantham (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for managing states at a networking device configured to track connections or bidirectional flows of a communication session in a software defined network (SDN). The networking device has an active processing engine and a passive processing engine. The connection record for an idle connection is maintained in the connection table store...