ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,232, issued on June 17, was assigned to VMWare LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Distributed identity-based firewalls" was invented by Anirban Sengupta (Saratoga, Calif.), Subrahmanyam Manuguri (San Jose, Calif.), Mitchell T. Christensen (Livermore, Calif.), Azeem Feroz (San Jose, Calif.) and Todd Sabin (Morganville, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are described for monitoring network communications using a distributed firewall. One of the techniques includes receiving, at a driver executing in a guest operating system of a virtual machine, a request to open a network connection from a process associated with a use...