US Patent Issued to SonicWALL on Dec. 30 for "Firewall access rule authenticated by security assertion markup language (SAML)" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,111, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SonicWALL Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Firewall access rule authenticated by security assertion markup language (SAML)" was invented by Riji Cai (Milpitas, Calif.), Hao Zhang (Milpitas, Calif.) and Rui Zheng (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, methods, computer readable medium, and circuits for providing access to a network. According to at least one example, a method includes: intercepting a request at a firewall the request sent from a computing device regarding establishment of a secure communication session with a network; in response to determi...