US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 23 for "System and method for providing SCHC-based edge firewalling" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,371, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method for providing SCHC-based edge firewalling" was invented by Pascal Thubert (Roquefort-les-Pins, France), Jonas Zaddach (Antibes, France), Patrick Wetterwald (Mouans Sartoux, France) and Eric Levy-Abegnoli (Valbonne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes identifying, using a Static Context Header Compression (SCHC) rules engine, one or more packets matching a rule, selecting a firewall decision based on the identified one or more packets and the rule, and applying the firewall decision to the one o...