US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Jan. 20 for "Partial masking, deleting, and watermarking of resources based on confidentiality and clearance levels" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,862, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Partial masking, deleting, and watermarking of resources based on confidentiality and clearance levels" was invented by Ofer Ben-Noon (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ohad Bobrov (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Ido Salomon (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Based on a user request to access a resource, confidentiality scores for data of various data types associated with the resource are determined. Using these confidentiality scores and clearance scores for a corresponding user, for each of the data types, first and second criteria are applied for each d...