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Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2026

Filed:

May. 31, 2022
Applicant:

Lacework, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Matti A. Vanninen, Cary, NC (US);

Alex Ramachandran Nirmala, San Jose, CA (US);

Prakash Jalan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Anil K. Nanduri, Fremont, CA (US);

Yijou Chen, Cupertino, CA (US);

Assignee:

Fortinet, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 43/045 (2022.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 43/026 (2022.01); H04L 43/06 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/1408 (2013.01); H04L 43/026 (2013.01); H04L 43/045 (2013.01); H04L 43/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

An example method includes obtaining, by an agent deployed on a resource in a cloud environment, a data packet indicating a source port and a destination port and for which a direction of a connection between the source port and the destination port is unknown; searching, by the agent, a cache for at least one of the source port or the destination port; and assigning, by the agent and based on information associated with at least one of the source port or the destination port in the cache, the direction of the connection between the source port and the destination port.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Vanninen, Matti. (2026). Determining directions of connections in monitoring a cloud environment (U.S. Patent No. 12556548). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12556548

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