US Patent Issued to ALKIRA on March 11 for "Multi-tenant virtual private network microsegmentation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,146, issued on March 11, was assigned to ALKIRA INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multi-tenant virtual private network microsegmentation" was invented by Shreyas Heranjal (San Jose, Calif.) and Robin James (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "What is disclosed is tagging a first flow of a multi-tenant virtual private network (VPN) with a first tag. Continuously tracking, based on the first tag, the first flow of the multi-tenant VPN. Capturing one or more characteristics of the first flow of the multi-tenant VPN. Categorizing the first flow of the multi-tenant VPN based on the one or more characteristics of the first flow. Provi...