US Patent Issued to Open Text on Dec. 16 for "Restricting access to application programming interfaces (APIs)" (Colorado, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,211, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Open Text Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Restricting access to application programming interfaces (APIs)" was invented by Andrew L. Sandoval (San Antonio) and John R. Shaw II (Broomfield, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for restricting access to application programming interfaces (APIs). For example, when a process calls an API, the API call may be intercepted by a security system for evaluation of its trustfulness before the API is allowed to run. Upon intercepting an API call, the process calling the API may be evaluated to det...