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From the News Desk
Thursday, 26. June 2008
Fortinet Gets Four New Patents Under Its Belt
The United States Patent and Trademark Office recently awarded Fortinet, a provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions, four additional patents for network virtualization and security related inventions.
The company claims that the four new patents reflect its focus on innovative methods for efficiently processing network data while applying various security-related filtration processes within a consolidated and accelerated platform. Three of the newly awarded patents are directed to the routing and processing of data in virtualized environments.
Following are the awarded patents:
· U.S. Patent #7,333,430 – Systems and Methods for Passing Network Traffic Data– directed to efficiently processing network traffic data to facilitate policy enforcement, including content scanning, source/destination verification, virus scanning, content detection and intrusion detection;
· U.S. Patent #7,340,535 – System and Method for Controlling Routing in a Virtual Router System – directed to controlling the routing of network data, and providing efficient configuration of routing functionality and optimized use of available resources by applying functions to data packets in a virtual environment;
· U.S. Patent #7,376,125 – Service Processing Switch – directed to providing IP services and IP packet processing in a virtual router-based system using IP flow caches, virtual routing engines, virtual services engines and advanced security engines;
· U.S. Patent # 7,389,358 – Distributed Virtual System to Support Managed, Network-based Services – directed to a virtual routing system, which includes processing elements to manage and optimize IP traffic, useful for service provider switching functions at Internet point-of-presence (POP) locations.
These new patents strengthen Fortinet’s growing intellectual property portfolio, bringing Fortinet’s total awarded patents to 17. In addition, Fortinet has more than 80 patent-pending and in-process applications.
Commenting on these new patents Michael Xie, CTO and co-founder of Fortinet said, “As we continue our strong research and development efforts, our growing patent portfolio provides momentum for accelerating the course of innovation we are undertaking.” He further added that the new patents are key in propelling some of the highest impact technologies and business trends of the day – security consolidation and virtualization.
The company claims that the four new patents reflect its focus on innovative methods for efficiently processing network data while applying various security-related filtration processes within a consolidated and accelerated platform. Three of the newly awarded patents are directed to the routing and processing of data in virtualized environments.
Following are the awarded patents:
· U.S. Patent #7,333,430 – Systems and Methods for Passing Network Traffic Data– directed to efficiently processing network traffic data to facilitate policy enforcement, including content scanning, source/destination verification, virus scanning, content detection and intrusion detection;
· U.S. Patent #7,340,535 – System and Method for Controlling Routing in a Virtual Router System – directed to controlling the routing of network data, and providing efficient configuration of routing functionality and optimized use of available resources by applying functions to data packets in a virtual environment;
· U.S. Patent #7,376,125 – Service Processing Switch – directed to providing IP services and IP packet processing in a virtual router-based system using IP flow caches, virtual routing engines, virtual services engines and advanced security engines;
· U.S. Patent # 7,389,358 – Distributed Virtual System to Support Managed, Network-based Services – directed to a virtual routing system, which includes processing elements to manage and optimize IP traffic, useful for service provider switching functions at Internet point-of-presence (POP) locations.
These new patents strengthen Fortinet’s growing intellectual property portfolio, bringing Fortinet’s total awarded patents to 17. In addition, Fortinet has more than 80 patent-pending and in-process applications.
Commenting on these new patents Michael Xie, CTO and co-founder of Fortinet said, “As we continue our strong research and development efforts, our growing patent portfolio provides momentum for accelerating the course of innovation we are undertaking.” He further added that the new patents are key in propelling some of the highest impact technologies and business trends of the day – security consolidation and virtualization.
