US Patent Issued to Virtual Instruments Worldwide on July 22 for "System and method of flow source discovery" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,060, issued on July 22, was assigned to Virtual Instruments Worldwide Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"System and method of flow source discovery" was invented by Nicholas York (San Ramon, Calif.), Rosanna Lee (Palo Alto, Calif.), Vishal Neema (San Jose, Calif.) and Xiaohong Pan (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method comprises receiving flow packets from network traffic analyzing platforms, for each particular flow packet: identify the particular flow packet as belonging to one of at least two flow packet types based on a format, if the particular flow packet is sFlow, determine if the particular flow packet is...