US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on June 3 for "Communicating URL categorization information" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,409, issued on June 3, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Communicating URL categorization information" was invented by Dao-Chen Zheng (Cupertino, Calif.), Wei Cao (San Jose, Calif.), William Redington Hewlett II (Mountain View, Calif.) and Shangde Zhou (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A URL categorization query is received. The URL categorization query includes at least one URL. The URL is used to determine a set of data distribution keys. A distributed key-value data store is queried using at least one data distribution key included in the determined set of data distribution keys. Catego...