US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 17 for "Tunneled communication monitoring" (Washington, Georgia, Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,835, issued on March 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Tunneled communication monitoring" was invented by Nikish Bhat (Bellevue, Wash.), Jamie Dorea Gaudette (Kirkland, Wash.), Pankaj Garg (Union City, Calif.), Somesh Chaturmohta (Bellevue, Wash.), Suji Panicker Raja Mohan (Duluth, Ga.), Mu Zhang (Belmont, Mass.) and Gary Steven Bolivar (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system generates a probe packet including a probe flag and transmits the probe packet through a network tunnel to a destination computing system. The system receives from the destination computing system through the net...