US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Jan. 13 for "Targeted PDU capture by a network device for roaming detection in wireless networks" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,617, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Targeted PDU capture by a network device for roaming detection in wireless networks" was invented by Ta Chien Lin (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device via which wireless clients can connect to a wireless network selectively captures PDUs detected on an instrumented interface(s) to capture those of one or more types/subtypes "of interest." PDU types/subtypes that network device interface(s) has been instrumented to treat as "of interest" include those that are indicative of Wi-Fi roaming of a wireless client. The network...