ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,792, issued on March 18, was assigned to VMWare LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Tagging packets for monitoring and analysis" was invented by Xi Cheng (Beijing), Caixia Jiang (Beijing), Dongrui Mo (Beijing), Jingchun Jason Jiang (Beijing), Xiaoyan Jin (Beijing), Qiong Wang (Beijing) and Donghai Han (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a method for performing data traffic monitoring. The method processes a packet through a packet processing pipeline that includes multiple stages. At a filtering stage, the method tags the packet with a set of monitoring actions for subsequent stages to perform on the packet based ...