US Patent Issued to NetScout Systems Texas on July 15 for "Method and system for dynamic load balancing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,040, issued on July 15, was assigned to NetScout Systems Texas LLC (Westford, Mass.).

"Method and system for dynamic load balancing" was invented by Danny Lobo (San Jose, Calif.), Clifford Lin (South San Francisco, Calif.), Kaushik Koneru (Milpitas, Calif.) and Russell Erikson (Portola Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for performing dynamic load balancing in a network load balancer device. A network packet flow is monitored in a load balancer device for detecting dropped network packets, or a sampling of traffic flow, in the monitored network packet flow. Metadata (e.g., a 5-tuple) is created for the ...