US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Nov. 11 for "Efficient state replication in SDN networks" (Georgia, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,455, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Efficient state replication in SDN networks" was invented by Gerald Roy Degrace (Atlanta), Deepak Bansal (Bellevue, Wash.), Rishabh Tewari (Sammamish, Wash.) and Michal Czeslaw Zygmunt (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) states of an active device are replicated at a backup device configured to track connections in a software defined network (SDN). The backup device receives, from the active device, a TCP packet with a TCP flag including one or more of SYN, SYN-ACK, ACK, FIN, FIN-ACK, ACK, or R...