US Patent Issued to Fastly on July 1 for "Web application firewall for an online service" (Colorado, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,487, issued on July 1, was assigned to Fastly Inc. (San Francisco).

"Web application firewall for an online service" was invented by Artur Bergman (Denver), Sean Leach (Castle Pines, Colo.), Tyler McMullen (San Francisco), Christian Peron (San Francisco), Federico Schwindt (San Francisco) and Eric Hodel (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are enhancements for operating a web application firewall to reduce load. In one implementation, a method of operating a content server for a web application comprising running a web accelerator with a plurality of threads on the content server. The method further provides ...