US Patent Issued to Red Hat on Nov. 11 for "Downstream destination selection for tunnel packets based on fixed header packet values" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,479, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Downstream destination selection for tunnel packets based on fixed header packet values" was invented by Michael Tsirkin (Ra'anana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device driver (NDD) associated with a network interface device (NID) of a computing device processes a tunnel packet received by the NID and originating from a source device. The tunnel packet includes a tunnel packet header, a user datagram protocol (UDP) header, and a payload including a Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) packet. The NDD accesses a data structure ...