US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on April 29 for "Network policy application based on session state" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,243, issued on April 29, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Network policy application based on session state" was invented by Patrick Timmons (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for the detection of different states of a session comprising a bidirectional flow of network traffic between client devices so as to enable a network device to apply different network policies to different states of the session. In one example, a computing device identifies multiple states of a session and defines a plurality of network policies. Each network policy defines performance requirements ...