US Patent Issued to F5 on July 28 for "Methods for switching network packets based on packet data and devices thereof" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,708, issued on July 28, was assigned to F5 Inc. (Seattle).

"Methods for switching network packets based on packet data and devices thereof" was invented by William Baumann (Seattle) and Alan Mimms (Spokane, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, network traffic manager apparatuses, and systems that assist with network packet switching based on packet data includes receiving a plurality of network packets. Next, header data and payload data is separated for each of the plurality of received network packets. Next, digest data is created from the separated header data for each of the plural...