US Patent Issued to Fortinet on Aug. 4 for "File sharing framework in network security systems to synchronize data and configuration files across virtual machine clusters independent of file sharing technologies" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,161, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"File sharing framework in network security systems to synchronize data and configuration files across virtual machine clusters independent of file sharing technologies" was invented by Chaturbhuj Singh (Pune, India), Niraj Nandane (Pune, India) and Pooja Singh (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A source node from the cluster of nodes, responsive to receiving the file sharing command from other applications on the same node (e.g., on a virtual machine in the cluster of nodes), copies the shared file to a source workspace directory and compress, and then...