US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Feb. 18 for "Joining javascript object notation (JSON) queries across cloud resources" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,128, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Joining javascript object notation (JSON) queries across cloud resources" was invented by Chandra Biksheswaran Mouleeswaran (Cupertino, Calif.), Rama Teja Repaka (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xiaoyan Wang (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Parul Shukla (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cloud resource join query for join operations across cloud resources is parsed to extract join rules and queries to each cloud resource in the cloud resource join query. Results from the individual cloud queries are dynamically indexed based on pairs of cloud resourc...