US Patent Issued to Fortinet on Aug. 11 for "Path selection strategy utilizing type of service (TOS) in software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN)" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,332, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Path selection strategy utilizing type of service (TOS) in software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN)" was invented by Wang Xi (Vancouver, Canada) and Shangwei Duan (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An SD-WAN route is selected based on the TOS parameters matching real-time SD-WAN link quality requirement by matching jitter, latency and/or packet loss requirements of TOS parameters to highest ranking links over a route. The TOS parameters for a specific application can be parsed from data traffic and matched to optimal SD-WAN routes. The data ...