ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,133, issued on April 7, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).
"Packet flow control in a header of a packet" was invented by Shane Baker (Bellevue, Wash.), Santosh Narayan Shilimkar (San Jose, Calif.) and Jagwinder Singh Brar (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for controlling packet flows are described. In an example, a packet is sent on a virtual network. The packet's header includes scoping data that indicates a network boundary within which the packet is permitted and/or prohibited to flow. A network virtualization device of a substrate network receives the packet. The network ...