US Patent Issued to Fortinet on June 17 for "Dynamic leaf determination for tree creations for high-speed network policy search during data packet scanning" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,154, issued on June 17, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Dynamic leaf determination for tree creations for high-speed network policy search during data packet scanning" was invented by Shushan Wen (Pleasant Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During high-speed network policy searching for data packets, an upper limit and a lower limit for a policy count are predefined for a ratio of the policy count to the sum of the policy count and the range count. A policy tree builder generates a policy tree image from a set of recursive operations on the raw policy set including an on-the-fly determination of whether a...