US Patent Issued to Salesforce on Oct. 7 for "Systems and methods of application layer packet inspection" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,702, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods of application layer packet inspection" was invented by Kaushal Bansal (Pleasanton, Calif.), Prabhat Singh (San Jose, Calif.) and Alankar Sharma (Moorestown, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for requesting, at a service configured on a server, a public key infrastructure (PKI) generated certificate using a PKI agent, where the PKI agent stores a private key and the generated certificate in a key management service (KMS). An application layer security controller communicatively coupled to the server registers...