ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,835, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).
"Optimized path selection for multi-path groups" was invented by Rupa Budhia (San Jose, Calif.), William Brad Matthews (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Puneet Agarwal (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packet to be forwarded over a computer network to a destination is received. A group of multiple network paths is available to forward to the packet to the destination. One or more path selection factors are determined to be used to identify a specific network load balancing algorithm to select a specific network path from the group of multiple network ...