US Patent Issued to Confluent on May 5 for "Secure hybrid data transfer through connection and request direction decoupling" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,298, issued on May 5, was assigned to Confluent Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Secure hybrid data transfer through connection and request direction decoupling" was invented by Rajini Sivaram (Romsey, Great Britain) and Nikhil Bhatia (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are directed to secure hybrid data transfer through connection and request direction decoupling. Initially, a controller server in a source on-premises cluster establishes a persistent connection to a controller server in a destination cloud cluster. The connection is then reversed, which enables destination servers to request additional co...