US Patent Issued to NetScout Systems on March 3 for "Systems and methods for hierarchical deep packet inspection for scalable network monitoring and cyber security functions" (Massachusetts, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,125, issued on March 3, was assigned to NetScout Systems Inc. (Westford, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for hierarchical deep packet inspection for scalable network monitoring and cyber security functions" was invented by Anil K. Singhal (Carlisle, Mass.) and Sanjay Munshi (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for hierarchical network monitoring functions are disclosed. An order of execution for layer functions of a network architecture is determined. The layer functions may be distributed across multiple layers. The layers may include a sensor layer, a federated application layer, and a data lake layer. A ma...