US Patent Issued to FORTINET on Aug. 11 for "Performance optimizations and traffic flow control for packet processing in a firewall" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,879, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to FORTINET INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Performance optimizations and traffic flow control for packet processing in a firewall" was invented by Liwu Liu (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Packet traffic flow control includes receiving a packet, by a first virtual machine network security appliance (VMNSA), and determining whether the packet is to be processed by a first path or a second path; in response to determining that the packet is to be processed by the first path, processing the packet by a first traffic flow controller (TFC) of the VMNSA, forwarding the packet by the first T...