ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,710, issued on May 12, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Network security protection method and protection device" was invented by Xinqian He (Hangzhou, China) and Kan Zhou (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a network security protection method and a protection device, and pertains to the field of communication technologies. When a client and a server exchange a packet in a first session, a protection device identifies an application layer protocol type based on application layer data in the packet in the first session, and if determining, based on the application...