US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Nov. 11 for "Data packet traffic using speculative unified flow" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,483, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Data packet traffic using speculative unified flow" was invented by Harish Srinivasan (Sammamish, Wash.), Tian Tan (Kirkland, Wash.), Milan Dasgupta (Seattle) and Denys Gurzhii (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is presented for processing directional data packet traffic. A main data packet, characterized by a plurality of main data packet characteristics including at least a first IP address representing a first source, and a second IP address representing a first destination, is received at a rule processing engine. B...