US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Jan. 28 for "Time-based network authentication challenges" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,550, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Time-based network authentication challenges" was invented by Ashwath Sreenivasa Murthy (San Francisco), Prabhakar M V B R Mangam (San Jose, Calif.), Shriram S. Jandhyala (San Jose, Calif.), Qiuming Li (San Jose, Calif.) and Yongjie Yin (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for time-based network authentication challenges are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system, process, and/or computer program product for time-based network authentication challenges includes monitoring a session at a firewall to identify a user associate...