US Patent Issued to Fortinet on July 14 for "Policy set feature guided node level partitioning for policy search tree optimization" (California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,020, issued on July 14, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Policy set feature guided node level partitioning for policy search tree optimization" was invented by Shushan Wen (Pleasant Hill, Calif.), Tianrui Wei (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Kevin Juncheng Xu (Sunnyvale, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches policy set feature guided node level partitioning for policy search tree optimization are disclosed. A set of policy bins is generated by creating equal-width bins on a given dimension. An original policy set is scanned to determine a number of policies falling into each policy bin in the set of policy bins. A...