ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,181, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to CAPITAL ONE SERVICES LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for implementing transparent SaaS proxy on and off network" was invented by Douglas E. Farmer (McLean, Va.) and Glen A. Wilson (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to a system/method for utilizing SaaS proxy platform to provide a transparent proxy solution and allow deployment of a hybrid network having a uniform proxy/Internet access environment for both on-network and off-network user traffic. A granular architecture for steering of user Internet traffic is presented that utilizes a SaaS a...