ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,788, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Great Britain).
"Data plane framework for redirecting data packets" was invented by Dirk Jacobus van der Merwe (Vancouver, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for redirecting data packets includes receiving, by a computer system, at least one data packet, attaching, by an express data path program of the one or more processors of the computer system, a metadata structure to each of the at least one data packet, populating, by the express data path program, the metadata structure with metadata information, redirecting, by the computer system based on the metadata informati...