Palo Alto Networks, Inc. Patent Application Trends in 2024

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. patent applications in 2024

Top 10 Technology Areas

• H04L63/1425 ({Traffic logging, e.g. anomaly detection})
  • Count: 10 patents
  • Example: 20240129327. CONTEXT INFORMED ABNORMAL ENDPOINT BEHAVIOR DETECTION simplified abstract (Palo Alto Networks, Inc.)
• H04L63/1416 ({Event detection, e.g. attack signature detection})
  • Count: 10 patents
  • Example: 20240129327. CONTEXT INFORMED ABNORMAL ENDPOINT BEHAVIOR DETECTION simplified abstract (Palo Alto Networks, Inc.)
• H04L63/20 ({for managing network security; network security policies in general (filtering policies)
  • Count: 8 patents
  • Example: 20240163315. MOBILE USER IDENTITY AND/OR SIM-BASED IOT IDENTITY AND APPLICATION IDENTITY BASED SECURITY ENFORCEMENT IN SERVICE PROVIDER NETWORKS simplified abstract (Palo Alto Networks, Inc.)
• H04L63/0236 ({Filtering by address, protocol, port number or service, e.g. IP-address or URL})
  • Count: 7 patents
  • Example: 20240163315. MOBILE USER IDENTITY AND/OR SIM-BASED IOT IDENTITY AND APPLICATION IDENTITY BASED SECURITY ENFORCEMENT IN SERVICE PROVIDER NETWORKS simplified abstract (Palo Alto Networks, Inc.)
• G06N20/00 (Machine learning)
  • Count: 5 patents
  • Example: 20240129327. CONTEXT INFORMED ABNORMAL ENDPOINT BEHAVIOR DETECTION simplified abstract (Palo Alto Networks, Inc.)
• H04L63/0263 ({Rule management})
  • Count: 5 patents
  • Example: 20240121267. INLINE MALICIOUS URL DETECTION WITH HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE PATTERNS simplified abstract (Palo Alto Networks, Inc.)
• G06F21/566 ({Dynamic detection, i.e. detection performed at run-time, e.g. emulation, suspicious activities})
  • Count: 4 patents
  • Example: 20240104210. MALICIOUS JS DETECTION BASED ON AUTOMATED USER INTERACTION EMULATION simplified abstract (Palo Alto Networks, Inc.)
• G06F2221/033 (Indexing scheme relating to)
  • Count: 4 patents
  • Example: 20240104210. MALICIOUS JS DETECTION BASED ON AUTOMATED USER INTERACTION EMULATION simplified abstract (Palo Alto Networks, Inc.)
• G06F21/53 (by executing in a restricted environment, e.g. sandbox or secure virtual machine)
  • Count: 3 patents
  • Example: 20240104210. MALICIOUS JS DETECTION BASED ON AUTOMATED USER INTERACTION EMULATION simplified abstract (Palo Alto Networks, Inc.)
• H04L63/029 ({Firewall traversal, e.g. tunnelling or, creating pinholes})
  • Count: 3 patents
  • Example: 20240163315. MOBILE USER IDENTITY AND/OR SIM-BASED IOT IDENTITY AND APPLICATION IDENTITY BASED SECURITY ENFORCEMENT IN SERVICE PROVIDER NETWORKS simplified abstract (Palo Alto Networks, Inc.)

Emerging Technology Areas

• H04L63/1441 ({Countermeasures against malicious traffic (countermeasures against attacks on cryptographic mechanisms)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240048579. IDENTIFICATION OF MALICIOUS DOMAIN CAMPAIGNS USING UNSUPERVISED CLUSTERING simplified abstract (Palo Alto Networks, Inc.)
• H04L63/101 ({Access control lists [ACL]})
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240031413. CONSISTENT MONITORING AND ANALYTICS FOR SECURITY INSIGHTS FOR NETWORK AND SECURITY FUNCTIONS FOR A SECURITY SERVICE simplified abstract (Palo Alto Networks, Inc.)
• G06F16/24568 ({Data stream processing; Continuous queries})
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240031379. SECURITY APPLIANCE TO MONITOR NETWORKED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT simplified abstract (Palo Alto Networks, Inc.)
• G06F16/90328 (Querying (for retrieval from the web)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240031379. SECURITY APPLIANCE TO MONITOR NETWORKED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT simplified abstract (Palo Alto Networks, Inc.)
• G06F16/9027 ({Trees})
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240031379. SECURITY APPLIANCE TO MONITOR NETWORKED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT simplified abstract (Palo Alto Networks, Inc.)
• G06F16/2477 ({Temporal data queries})
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240031379. SECURITY APPLIANCE TO MONITOR NETWORKED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT simplified abstract (Palo Alto Networks, Inc.)
• G06F16/23 (Updating)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240031379. SECURITY APPLIANCE TO MONITOR NETWORKED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT simplified abstract (Palo Alto Networks, Inc.)
• H04L41/145 ({involving simulating, designing, planning or modelling of a network})
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240031379. SECURITY APPLIANCE TO MONITOR NETWORKED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT simplified abstract (Palo Alto Networks, Inc.)
• H04L45/64 (using an overlay routing layer)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240031332. PACKET CLASSIFICATION FOR NETWORK ROUTING simplified abstract (Palo Alto Networks, Inc.)
• H04L45/38 ({Flow based routing})
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240031332. PACKET CLASSIFICATION FOR NETWORK ROUTING simplified abstract (Palo Alto Networks, Inc.)

Top Inventors

• Daiping Liu of Sunnyvale CA (US) (5 patents)
• Jun Wang of Fremont CA (US) (5 patents)
• Yanhui Jia of San Jose CA (US) (5 patents)
• Shengming Xu of San Jose CA (US) (5 patents)
• Shu Lin of Saratoga CA (US) (4 patents)
• William Redington Hewlett, II of Mountain View CA (US) (4 patents)
• Chandra Biksheswaran Mouleeswaran of Cupertino CA (US) (3 patents)
• Xiaoyan Wang of Pleasanton CA (US) (3 patents)
• Jin Chen of San Jose CA (US) (3 patents)
• Bo Qu of Saratoga CA (US) (3 patents)

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