ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,688, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Selective handling of traffic received from on-premises data centers" was invented by John Eric Keane (Metuchen, N.J.) and Myron Decker King (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A redirector (RD) in a cloud hosted data center receives a packet originating from a source device in an on-premises data center. The packet is directed to a destination IP address associated with a router located in the cloud hosted data center. A destination address field in a header of the packet is set to the destination IP address. The RD determines ...