US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Feb. 10 for "Stateless application layer user session tracking" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,533, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Stateless application layer user session tracking" was invented by Rosarin Jolly Roy Antonyraj (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Badrinath Natarajan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides for server-side application layer session tracking by leveraging the TLS ticket mechanism. Assuming a client indicates support for a TLS ticket when establishing a transport layer session, a server creates a TLS ticket for the transport layer session and conveys in the TLS ticket to the client an identifier used for application layer se...