US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 8 for "Selective offloading of packet flows with flow state management" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,482, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Selective offloading of packet flows with flow state management" was invented by Pradeep Patel (Fremont, Calif.), Jonathan A. Kunder (San Jose, Calif.), Ashish K. Dey (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Andrew E. Ossipov (Lewisville, Texas) and Jianxin Wang (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first packet of a packet flow is received at a classifying network device. The first packet is forwarded from the classifying network device to a firewall network device. An indication that the packet flow is to be offloaded is received at the classifying network ...