US Patent Issued to VMware on Sept. 23 for "Packet flow monitoring with attribute-to-identifier mapping" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,314, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Packet flow monitoring with attribute-to-identifier mapping" was invented by Amol Manohar Vaikar (Maharashtra, India), Vishal Ranjan (Maharashtra, India), Avinash Nigam (Uttar Pradesh, India) and Ravi Singhal (Maharashtra, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods and systems for packet flow monitoring are described. In one example, a first computer system may detect a flow of packets along a datapath between a source and a destination and determine source attribute information associated with the source and destination attribute information associa...