US Patent Issued to SHOPIFY on April 22 for "Systems and methods for dynamic traffic control at a firewall" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,156, issued on April 22, was assigned to SHOPIFY INC. (Ottawa).

"Systems and methods for dynamic traffic control at a firewall" was invented by Dennis Ho (Ottawa) and Devon Meunier (Guelph, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There may be situations in which it is desirable to dynamically implement a rule on the firewall in response to detecting a particular pattern of user activity. However, the software code required for tracking user activity, identifying patterns of user activity, and deciding what action to take may be relatively complex. Deploying such software code on a firewall increases the complexity of the firewall. For e...