US Patent Issued to Red Hat on July 7 for "Targeted unprivileged port configuration" (American, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,346, issued on July 7, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Targeted unprivileged port configuration" was invented by Yuval Kashtan (Newton, Mass.) and Mario Vazquez Cebrian (Valencia, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for implementing a targeted port allowance for unprivileged processes are presented. The systems and methods determine, from a plurality of ports, a first set of ports from which a process is configured to receive information. The systems and methods configure the first set of ports to be unprivileged, and then configure a second set of the plurality of ports to be privileged. The second...