US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on June 2 for "Authentication token with proof of possession for GP proxy support" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,412, issued on June 2, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Authentication token with proof of possession for GP proxy support" was invented by Mohit Sahni (Fremont, Calif.), Jacky Fang (New York) and Daphne Sang (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and device for authenticating traffic for a web service. The method includes (i) generating a request for a first token for a user based at least in part on providing to a security portal to authenticate the user, (ii) obtaining a context structure comprising user information, a nonce, and a timestamp, (iii) intercepting a connectio...