US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 27 for "Packet processing for network security groups" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,605, issued on May 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Packet processing for network security groups" was invented by Aidan Francis Copeland (Enfield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for generating a network packet classifier for network security groups. The network packet classifier is processed by a graph-based packet processor in a communications network. The network packet classifier is configured to classify network packets based on features grouped into feature types corresponding to header fields of the network packets. A single feature classifier is g...