US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 10 for "Network intrusion prevention in edge computing environments" (Indian, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,591, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Network intrusion prevention in edge computing environments" was invented by Sudheesh S. Kairali (Kozhikode, India), James David Cleaver (Grose Wold, Australia), Binoy Thomas (Kozhikode, India) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented methods, systems and program products extending traditional cloud-centric intrusion detection to edge networks. NIDPS is decentralized between the edge and cloud. Edge gateways equipped with NIDPS agents capture packets of network traffic and pre-process the d...