US Patent Issued to F5 on Dec. 2 for "Methods for enforcing firewall and security policies based on subscriber identification and devices thereof" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,731, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to F5 Inc. (Seattle).

"Methods for enforcing firewall and security policies based on subscriber identification and devices thereof" was invented by John Howell (Seattle), Geoffrey Peterson (Seattle), Ron Talmor (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Judge Kennedy Singh Arora (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and network security manager apparatus that assists with enforcing firewall and security policies based on subscriber identification and subscriber class includes receiving network traffic from a plurality of client devices. A unique subscriber id...