US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on April 21 for "Passing metadata associated with a packet within a userspace of a network device" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,893, issued on April 21, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Houston).

"Passing metadata associated with a packet within a userspace of a network device" was invented by Erin C. Macneil (Carp, Canada), Amit Kumar Rao (Ontario, Canada), Hariprasad Shanmugam (Kanata, Canada) and Thomas Alexander (Palo Alto, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device identifies, using a daemon of a userspace of the network device, a packet, and processes, using the daemon, the packet to determine metadata associated with the packet. The network device stores, using the daemon, the metadata and a key value in a data struc...