US Patent Issued to Fortnet on July 29 for "Exploit predictive intrusion protection system (EP-IPS) for data packet traffic on data communication networks" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,503, issued on July 29, was assigned to Fortnet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Exploit predictive intrusion protection system (EP-IPS) for data packet traffic on data communication networks" was invented by Roshanak Partovi (Valbonne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exploit probability value is calculated for each of the plurality of signatures learned from a history of exploits against attributes. The exploit probability value represents a likelihood of a particular signature exploiting one or more attributes of the private network. The exploit probability value is sorted or ranked to prioritize which exploit signatures have th...