US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on March 17 for "Scalable flow differentiation for networks with overlapping IP addresses" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,887, issued on March 17, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Scalable flow differentiation for networks with overlapping IP addresses" was invented by Pankaj Kumar Bhagra (Fremont, Calif.), Sharad Saha (Santa Clara, Calif.), Srinivasan Komandoor Santhanam (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Eswar Rao Sadaram (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Flows corresponding to an overlapping IP address are differentiated via scalable techniques for appropriate enforcement security policies. Agents deployed to each site of a network (e.g., each VPC or branch router) encapsulate outbound packets with a header that in...