US Patent Issued to CLOUDFLARE on Oct. 27 for "Controlling access to internet resources for certain user agents based on one or more conditions being satisfied" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,043, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to CLOUDFLARE INC. (San Francisco).

"Controlling access to internet resources for certain user agents based on one or more conditions being satisfied" was invented by Matthew Browning Prince (Park City, Utah), Dane Orion Knecht (Austin, Texas), William Hayes Allen III (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Richard Simon Newton (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intermediary server receives a request for a resource hosted at an origin server. The intermediary server determines whether the request includes a session identifier that can be used to verify an identity of the user agent. If i...