ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,774, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Multi-layered policy management" was invented by Jun Du (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for enforcing policy on multiple levels are disclosed. A multi-level policy includes at least one policy at a low level of abstraction and at least one policy at a high level of abstraction. An Internet of Things (IoT) device is discovered on a network. The IoT device is classified. The set of multi-level policies is applied to the IoT device based on the classification of the IoT device."
The patent was filed on May 3, 2023, under A...