ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,184, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Flow-based secure packet forwarding" was invented by Deepika Kunal Solanki (Pune, India) and Indresh Mishra (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods and systems for flow-based secure packet forwarding are described. In one example, a first computer system may assess validity of a security token associated with a flow of one or more packets. In response to determination that the security token is valid, a security association associated with the flow and the security token may be negotiated with a second computer system. The first computer sy...