US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on March 31 for "Cross protocol malware traffic detection using a two-layer ML architecture" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,948, issued on March 31, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Cross protocol malware traffic detection using a two-layer ML architecture" was invented by Lei Xu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Taojie Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Shengming Xu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and device for classifying traffic is disclosed. The method includes (i) correlating a plurality of network traffic sessions with same source indicators to obtain correlated network traffic, (ii) classifying the plurality of network traffic sessions based at least in part on a plurality of first-layer classifiers...