US Patent Issued to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY on Sept. 2 for "Applying overlay network policy based on users" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,738, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Applying overlay network policy based on users" was invented by Nicholas Anthony Marrone (Seattle) and Bryan David Skene (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to managing communication. Credentials of a user may be provided to an authorization service such that the authorization service authenticates the user as a member of authorization groups and such that the user may be associated with a gateway on an overlay network. The authorization groups may be compared with user groups to associate the user wi...