US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 14 for "Adding policy coding to packet headers to use to access resources in a secure network" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,919, issued on April 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Adding policy coding to packet headers to use to access resources in a secure network" was invented by Lee Simon Cooper (Portsmouth, Great Britain), Ralph Bateman (Southampton, Great Britain) and Scott Moonen (Fuquay Varina, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for adding policy coding to packet headers to use to access resources in a secure network. A determination is made of policy information for a user defining user privileges to access resources in the secure network. The pol...