US Patent Issued to Salesforce on April 7 for "Extending a trust boundary between cloud domains of the same entity" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,161, issued on April 7, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Extending a trust boundary between cloud domains of the same entity" was invented by Chaitanya Pemmaraju (Fremont, Calif.), Joshua Meier (El Dorado Hills, Calif.) and Selim Ciraci (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network protocol and architecture for extending trust between cloud domains of a same entity comprises adding, by egress logic executing on a first server, authentication information to a packet leaving a first cloud domain of the entity to indicate a source of the packet. The egress logic allows the packet to traverse to a target cloud ...