US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on July 21 for "User datagram protocol firewall" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,612, issued on July 21, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"User datagram protocol firewall" was invented by Timothy James Pierrepont (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a UDP firewall, a flow of packets is received from a public communications network, the flow of packets being sent into a private communications network. The firewall forwards a threshold amount of the flow of packets into the private communications network and validates the flow of packets in response to receiving a packet from the private communications network. In response to the validation failing the firewall blocks the fl...