US Patent Issued to Versa Networks on Dec. 16 for "Method and apparatus for metadata conversion with a flow identifier of a packet sequence in a tunnel-less SDWAN" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,843, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Versa Networks Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for metadata conversion with a flow identifier of a packet sequence in a tunnel-less SDWAN" was invented by Fidelis Prashanth (San Jose, Calif.), Jayakrishnan Iyer (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Apurva Mehta (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flow identifier is described for packet sequences through a secure tunnel of an SD-WAN in a tunnel-less mode. A method includes receiving a sequence of packets from a first client at the first hub, the sequence of packets each having a same flow, facilitating a secure tunnel between ...