US Patent Issued to VMware on July 8 for "Use of stateless marking to speed up stateful firewall rule processing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,728, issued on July 8, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Use of stateless marking to speed up stateful firewall rule processing" was invented by Jayant Jain (Cupertino, Calif.), Anirban Sengupta (Saratoga, Calif.), Mohan Parthasarathy (Cupertino, Calif.) and Xinhua Hong (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel method for stateful packet classification that uses hardware resources for performing stateless lookups and software resources for performing stateful connection flow handshaking is provided. To classify an incoming packet from a network, some embodiments perform stateless look up operations for th...