US Patent Issued to Sophos on Aug. 25 for "Managing untyped network traffic flows" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,897, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"Managing untyped network traffic flows" was invented by Chris Douglas Kraft (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An enterprise security system is improved by managing network flows based on an application type. When a network message having an unknown application type is received at a gateway, firewall, or other network device/service from an endpoint, the endpoint that originated the network message may be queried for identifying information for the source of the network message and the application type may be determined, or the endpoint may...