ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,560, issued on July 28, was assigned to Pensando Systems Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Methods and systems for selectively applying a transform to a packet" was invented by Mario Baldi (Harpswell, Maine) and Roger Andersson (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Packets may be transformed cryptographically or compressively in order to secure network communications and to preserve network bandwidth. The transformations may be applied at more than one protocol layer which can result in unnecessary operations such encrypting or compressing data that is already encrypted. This wastes processing resources. A solution is to selective...