US Patent Issued to NETFLIX on April 22 for "Modification of a socket network namespace in response to a system call interception" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,251, issued on April 22, was assigned to NETFLIX INC. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Modification of a socket network namespace in response to a system call interception" was invented by Alok Tiagi (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present application set forth a computer-implemented method that includes intercepting a first system call from a client application, wherein the system call comprises a request to connect to a target destination; obtaining a file descriptor for a socket associated with the request to connect from the client application; modifying a network namespace for the socket; and...