US Patent Issued to Zscaler on March 18 for "Stream processing of telemetry for a network topology" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,923, issued on March 18, was assigned to Zscaler Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Stream processing of telemetry for a network topology" was invented by Michael J. Melson (Arlington, Mass.) and Scott Laplante (Bedford, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include receiving messages from local security agents each on a host in a network, wherein the messages include network topology of the network in terms of addresses and sockets; incrementally creating a network topology of the network based on the messages; determining security policies for one or more microsegments in the network based on flow data and the network top...