ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,325, issued on April 29, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Blocking or allowing a file stream associated with a file based on an initial portion of the file" was invented by Paul Randee Dilim Kimayong (Watertown, Singapore) and Mounir Hahad (Campbell, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device may be configured to receive a file stream associated with an file. The network device may be configured to identify, based on receiving the file stream, an initial portion of the file. The network device may be configured to process the initial portion of the file to determine one or more features of the fi...