ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,873, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"Network address translation in a distributed switch" was invented by Venkatavaradhan Devarajan (Bangalore, India), Balaji Sankaran (Bangalore, India) and Suresh Kumar Reddy Beeram (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device in a distributed switch is provided. During operation, the network device receives information indicating allocation of a public Internet Protocol (IP) address and a subset of NAT ports available for a network address translation (NAT) instance deployed in the distributed switch. The network de...