ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,822, issued on March 25, was assigned to OPEN TEXT INC. (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Network threat prediction and blocking" was invented by Hal Lonas (Broomfield, Colo.), David Dufour (Broomfield, Colo.), Chip Witt (Broomfield, Colo.) and Patrick Kar Yin Chang (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A firewall monitors network activity and stores information about that network activity in a network activity log. The network activity is analyzed to identify a potential threat. The potential threat is further analyzed to identify other potential threats that are related to the potential threat, and are likely to pose a future risk...