US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Sept. 8 for "Offloading packet inspection tasks to a network interface card" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,514, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Offloading packet inspection tasks to a network interface card" was invented by Gaurav Bansal (Bengaluru, India) and Arun Mappate (Kerala, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques disclosed herein enable systems to offload deep packet inspection tasks to a network interface card. This is accomplished by configuring the network interface card with a configuration file. The configuration file identifies target protocols, target fields, a number of packets to analyze for each target protocol, as well as identification tables that ena...