US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Oct. 21 for "Update of firewall tables using ethernet virtual private network (EVPN) route type" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,213, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Update of firewall tables using ethernet virtual private network (EVPN) route type" was invented by Nitya Prabha Somayaji (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein relate to synchronization of distributed firewall tables using an EVPN route type. Examples include detecting an update to a firewall table at a network device and generating a control packet indicating that update. The control packet is consistent with an EVPN route type, which is a format to incorporate changes to firewall rules of the fire...