ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,238, issued on June 17, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Firewall insights processing and machine learning" was invented by Firat Kalaycilar (San Jose, Calif.), Xiang Wang (Mountain View, Calif.) and Gregory Lee Slaughter (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method causes data processing hardware to perform operations for training a firewall utilization model. The operations include receiving firewall utilization data for firewall connection requests during a utilization period. The firewall utilization data includes hit counts for each sub-rule associated with at least one fire...