ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,620, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to F5 Inc. (Seattle).
"Systems and methods for network traffic trunking" was invented by Zachary York (Reno, Nev.), Jeffrey J. Walker (Spokane, Wash.), Timothy S. Michels (Greenacres, Wash.) and C Stuart Johnson (Spokane, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology related to sending data items via network links in a link aggregate group is disclosed. Data items (such as network packets received via a computer network) can be analyzed to determine whether the data items qualify for a relaxed transmission ordering. If a data item does not qualify for relaxed transmission ordering, then a networ...