ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,458, issued on March 25, was assigned to Nasdaq Inc. (New York).
"Data packet processing methods, systems, and apparatus" was invented by Brian Kreider (Westminster, Colo.) and Stephen Cooper (Louisville, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology detects undesirable data packets. Data packets are received from multiple sources at one or more packet switches in a data communications network. The one or more packet switches route the data packets to one or more intended destination computing nodes and also transmit a copy of all the data packets received in the data communications network to a network capture device. The net...