US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Sept. 30 for "Multi-level and dynamic timers for carrier grade NAT" (South Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,172, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Multi-level and dynamic timers for carrier grade NAT" was invented by James Mathison (Greer, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein use a variable 2MSL timer (also referred to herein as a "port reuse timer") for a core network/gateway. A network device in a core network detects closing of a session that uses a port designated for Network Address Translation (NAT), monitors an overall NAT port utilization level, and manages release timing for the port based on the overall port utilization level."

The p...