US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on June 2 for "Customer-specified routing option groups and selection policies for cloud network traffic" (Virginia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,360, issued on June 2, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Customer-specified routing option groups and selection policies for cloud network traffic" was invented by Shuai Ye (Herndon, Va.), Matthew Browne Barr (Arlington, Va.) and Akshay Choudhry (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traffic manager obtains (a) a representation of an association between a set of networking destinations and a routing option group, and (b) a policy for selecting routing options from the group for network packets. For a network packet directed to one of the destinations, the traffic manager selects one of the routing optio...