US Patent Issued to VMware on June 16 for "Methods for revalidating FQDN rulesets in a firewall" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,299, issued on June 16, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Methods for revalidating FQDN rulesets in a firewall" was invented by Sushruth Gopal (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jayant Jain (San Jose, Calif.), Davide Celotto (Berkeley, Calif.) and Josh Swerdlow (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises: in response to detecting a new expression in a policy rule, updating a global version number to a new value; identifying a particular IP address that corresponds to an FQDN matching on the new expression; storing an entry comprising the particular IP address, the new expression, and an entry version number in a...