US Patent Issued to Fortinet on June 3 for "Fast gap reduction in policy tree creation for policy set with uneven density" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,390, issued on June 3, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Fast gap reduction in policy tree creation for policy set with uneven density" was invented by Shushan Wen (Pleasant Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A policy tree of nodes and leaves is automatically created from a network security policy set, by identifying density zones of policy subsets. Responsive to identifying an uneven density zone in a node of the policy tree, child nodes are generated with normal density zones from the uneven density zones. A policy bitmap is generated from a set of network security policies. A partition number is configure...