ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,518, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"System and method for client-based traffic control utilizing domain catalog" was invented by Natan Elul (Tel Aviv, Israel), Daniel Reisel (Tel Aviv, Israel), Guy Sviry (Tel Aviv, Israel), Gil Azrielant (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Yehoshua Haim Chen (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for directing network traffic in a client device based on a domain catalog. The method includes generating a virtual network interface having a namespace with a plurality of names, wherein a first name of the namespace is assign...