US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Dec. 30 for "Route adaptive intelligent traffic offloading" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,113, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Route adaptive intelligent traffic offloading" was invented by Ramesh Pavadai (San Ramon, Calif.) and Yegappan Lakshmanan (Union City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A host with a firewall and an offload device can be configured/programmed to balance security and cost. Services are instantiated on the firewall and on the offload device. The service on the firewall maintains data for offloaded flows that indicate the next-hops for the offloaded flows when offloaded. The service on the offload device periodically copies samples from offloaded...