US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Jan. 13 for "Traffic pattern-based prediction of cloud firewall costs for optimal cloud firewall deployment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,256, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Traffic pattern-based prediction of cloud firewall costs for optimal cloud firewall deployment" was invented by Shangde Zhou (Saratoga, Calif.), Sheng Meng (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Shu Lin (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Traffic log data generated by cloud firewalls executing in a cloud environment during a time period that indicate classes and corresponding amounts of network traffic detected across sessions as well as usage cost data recorded for the cloud firewalls during the time period are obtained. The traffic log data are pr...