US Patent Issued to Versa Networks on Dec. 16 for "Method and apparatus for flow identifier of unidirectional packet sequence flow in tunnel-less SDWAN" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,844, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Versa Networks Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for flow identifier of unidirectional packet sequence flow in tunnel-less SDWAN" was invented by Fidelis Prashanth (San Jose, Calif.), Jayakrishnan Iyer (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Apurva Mehta (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flow identifier is described for packet sequences through a secure tunnel of an SD-WAN in a tunnel-less mode. A method includes receiving from a first client packets of a same flow, facilitating a secure tunnel between the first hub and the second hub, assigning a flow identifier to the packets...