US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Oct. 14 for "Metadata enhancement for packet capture using VXLAN encapsulation" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,377, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Metadata enhancement for packet capture using VXLAN encapsulation" was invented by Darshil Jashvant Khetani (Stanmore, Great Britain), Hassan Ali Hussein Barakat (Enfield, Great Britain) and Salem Amin Al-Damluji (Chorleywood, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for capturing network traffic in a computing environment comprising a plurality of computing devices. Data packets to be captured are encapsulated within a Virtual Extensible Local Area Network (VXLAN) session. A reserved bit in a header of the encap...