ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,654, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc. (New York).
"System and method for firewall policy rule management" was invented by Hongliang Wang (Singapore), Rongfeng Zhou (Singapore), Jack Suzuki (Tokyo) and Jun Wu (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for updating network policies may include determining, from a set of hosts, a subset of hosts to have network policies updated; for each host in the subset of hosts, determining a set of policies relevant to the host, and determining a difference between the set of policies relevant to the host and a set of policies relevant to the h...