US Patent Issued to Red Hat on Oct. 20 for "Malicious packet filtering in a virtualization system" (Czech, American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,716, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Malicious packet filtering in a virtualization system" was invented by Michael Tsirkin (Haifa, Israel), Jiri Benc (Prague) and Aaron Conole (Lowell, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, by a processing device, a first packet addressed to a first virtualized execution environment, determining, by the processing device, whether the first packet has similar characteristics with a second packet by applying a first filtering rule to the first packet, wherein the first filtering rule is generated in view of characteristics of the second pack...