US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Aug. 26 for "Multiple data center compatible deployment of applications matching a wildcard domain name" (California, Illinois, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,616, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Multiple data center compatible deployment of applications matching a wildcard domain name" was invented by Jayant Jain (Cupertino, Calif.), Brian Russell Kean (Cincinnati), Mingfei Peng (Pleasanton, Calif.), Harieasswar Lakshmidevi (San Francisco) and Harish Kumar Lohar (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network controller communicates a wildcard domain name defined by a tenant and IP addresses of data centers for which a tenant has configured that wildcard to network elements of a network fabric through which the data centers are...