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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2023
Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
The present application discloses a method, system, and computer system for using a shared memory quota for communicating with a plurality of services in a data plane. The method includes processing a set of data for network security analysis, determining whether to offload the set of data to a cloud security entity for security processing, in response to determining to offload the set of data to the cloud security entity, send the set of data from a shared memory of the inline security entity to the cloud security entity. The cloud security entity provides a plurality of services. The plurality of services share a multiple-service shared-memory in which messages pertaining to the set of data offloaded to the cloud security entity is stored. Each service in the plurality of services is allocated a quota of the multiple-service shared-memory.