US Patent Issued to Level 3 Communications on Aug. 26 for "System and method for utilization of firewall policies for network security" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,621, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).

"System and method for utilization of firewall policies for network security" was invented by Robert Whelton (Louisville, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, for encoding a firewall ruleset into one or more bit arrays for fast determination of processing of a received communication packet by a firewall device associated with a network. Through this bitmap, a number of computation operations needed to determine a processing rule for a received packet is significantly reduced compared to the traditio...