US Patent Issued to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS on Aug. 25 for "Computer-implemented network security method" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,929, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLC (London).

"Computer-implemented network security method" was invented by Fadi El-Moussa (London) and Behnam Azvine (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented security method comprising: generating a plurality of partial clones of a malware file, each partial clone reflecting a different aspect of the malware file; causing trial deployment of one or more security services on a software-defined network (SDN); causing each of the plurality of partial clones to be run on a respective host; causing resulting traffic to be routed over the SDN, via one...