ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,833, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Hardware-assisted passive application monitoring" was invented by Juan Ruiz Sanchez (Bellaterra, Spain) and Jorge Garcia Alvarez (Viladecans, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor has hardware acceleration enabled during passive link quality measurement. The processor comprises a forwarding engine to passively gather link quality details from existing network sessions concerning a plurality of links. The link quality details comprise latency, jitter and packet loss. An SD-WAN path selection module identifies a link from the plurality of links for d...