US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Nov. 11 for "Context-aware path computation and selection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,622, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Context-aware path computation and selection" was invented by Rosarin Roy Antonyraj (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Subramanian Varadarajan (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems include a path management hub and proxy server nodes that form a mesh network. The hub receives link performance metrics from each of the nodes. The hub determines optimal paths between first and second nodes for each of a plurality of metric types or a combination of metric types using the received link performance metrics...