US Patent Issued to Oracle International on March 31 for "Packet flow in a cloud infrastructure based on cached and non-cached configuration information" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,877, issued on March 31, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Packet flow in a cloud infrastructure based on cached and non-cached configuration information" was invented by Leonard Thomas Tracy (Bothell, Wash.), Lucas Michael Kreger-Stickles (Seattle), Jagwinder Singh Brar (Bellevue, Wash.) and Bryce Eugene Bockman (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for managing the distribution of configuration information that supports the flow of packets in a cloud environment are described. In an example, a virtual network interface card (VNIC) hosted on a network virtualization device NVD receiv...