US Patent Issued to CLOUDFLARE on July 15 for "Cloud-based security service that includes external evaluation for accessing a third-party application" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,174, issued on July 15, was assigned to CLOUDFLARE INC. (San Francisco).

"Cloud-based security service that includes external evaluation for accessing a third-party application" was invented by James Howard Royal (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cloud-based security service that includes external evaluation for accessing a third-party application. The security service receives a request to access a third-party application from a client device. The security service enforces a set of one or more access policies configured for the third-party application including an external evaluation rule. As part of enforcing the exte...