US Patent Issued to Fortinet on Feb. 17 for "Determining directions of connections in monitoring a cloud environment" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,548, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Determining directions of connections in monitoring a cloud environment" was invented by Matti A. Vanninen (Cary, N.C.), Alex Ramachandran Nirmala (San Jose, Calif.), Prakash Jalan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Anil K. Nanduri (Fremont, Calif.) and Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes obtaining, by an agent deployed on a resource in a cloud environment, a data packet indicating a source port and a destination port and for which a direction of a connection between the source port and the destination port is unknown; se...