ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,070, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Network traffic inspection using an aggregate control metric" was invented by Karthik Uthaman (Seattle) and Ashok Kumar Nandoori (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Control of network traffic in a network is provided, including classifying a network request from a network source address using request classifiers selected from a plurality of request classifiers based on the network request satisfying classification conditions of the selected request classifiers, associating the network request with each classifier metric correspondi...