ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,479, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Ethernovia Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Conditional action execution and management" was invented by Brian Arnold Petersen (San Francisco) and Tom Quoc Wellbaum (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments described herein support or provide for conditional action execution and management functions, such as receiving a data packet at a network bridge; identifying an instruction pointer that describes the lookup operation; generating a search argument based on data content of the data packet; causing the network bridge to perform a lookup operation; selecting an action based...