US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Nov. 18 for "Targeted PDU capture by a network device for enhanced wireless network diagnostics" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,315, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Targeted PDU capture by a network device for enhanced wireless network diagnostics" was invented by Ta Chien Lin (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device with wireless access point capabilities 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 transmitted during a device's initial network activity during startup or attempted establish...