US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Sept. 29 for "SPI differentiated thin pipes between endpoints with core balancing based on SPI selection" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,315, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"SPI differentiated thin pipes between endpoints with core balancing based on SPI selection" was invented by Krishna Kumar Vavilala (Bangalore, India), Suresh Basavanagouda Patil (Hubli, India) and Naga Raghu Ramprasad Nandigama (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sub-tunneling technique disclosed herein reserves a range of security parameters index (SPI) values when establishing a secure tunnel connection. At the sending tunnel peer, the network driver of the sending tunnel peer NIC ("sending NIC") maps network traffic flows to di...