US Patent Issued to Akamai Technologies Ireland on Dec. 16 for "Secure network communication system and method" (Irish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,865, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Akamai Technologies Ireland Ltd. (Dublin).

"Secure network communication system and method" was invented by Thomas Maher (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secure network communication system and method for secure data exchange using TCP are disclosed. The system provides data exchange between a client and server, through an agent and broker interconnected to exchange data over an unsecured network. Upon receipt of a control packet from the client, the broker forwards a modified control packet to the agent using a secure protocol. The agent inspects the modified control packet and forward...