Palo Alto Networks Assigned Patent

Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,178,851) developed by Zuk, Nir, Menlo Park, CA, for a “high availability security device.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for processing a first plurality of packets using one or more processors and maintaining one or more flow records associated with the first plurality of packets, and processing a second plurality of packets without maintaining flow records associated with the second plurality of packets and allowing the second plurality of packets to pass to one or more destinations.“

The patent application was filed on April 17, 2013 (13/864,735).