US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Oct. 20 for "Centralized identity redistribution" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,670, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Centralized identity redistribution" was invented by Nidhi Shah (San Jose, Calif.), Songling Han (San Ramon, Calif.) and Srikanth Ramachandran (Hayward, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for providing centralized identity redistribution for a security service are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for providing centralized identity redistribution for a security service includes receiving user context information (e.g., an IP-user mapping, a user-tag mapping, an IP-tag mapping, an IP-port-user m...