ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,177, issued on Sept. 30, 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 first virtual ethernet device pair of a computer system having one or more computer processors, at least one data packet, intercepting, by a packet filter deployed by the first virtual ethernet device pair, the at least one data packet, redirecting, by the first virtual ethernet device pair based on the intercepting, the at least one data packet to a second vir...