US Patent Issued to Centripetal Networks on Nov. 4 for "Rule swapping in a packet network" (North Carolina, Virginia, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,942, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Centripetal Networks LLC (Portsmouth, N.H.).

"Rule swapping in a packet network" was invented by David K. Ahn (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Steven Rogers (Leesburg, Va.) and Sean Moore (Hollis, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some variations, first and second rule sets may be received by a network protection device. The first and second rule sets may be preprocessed. The network protection device may be configured to process packets in accordance with the first rule set. Packets may be received by the network protection device. A first portion of the packets may be processed in accordance with th...