US Patent Issued to NetScout Systems on Sept. 16 for "Matching user and control plane data in a network system using control and user plane separation" (Massachusetts, California, Texas, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. RE50,590, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to NetScout Systems Inc. (Westford, Mass.).

"Matching user and control plane data in a network system using control and user plane separation" was invented by Rajeev Nadkarni (Chelmsford, Mass.), Abhishek Saraswati (Santa Clara, Calif.), Anil K. Singhal (Carlisle, Mass.), Bruce A. Kelley Jr. (Westford, Mass.), Narendra Byrapuram (Westford, Mass.), John Peter Curtin (Richardson, Texas) and Tauras Liubinskas (Lexington, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system having a network monitor communicating with U and C probes monitoring SGW-U and SGW-Cs. The U probes buffer captured user plane packets fr...