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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2026

Filed:

Jan. 25, 2023
Applicant:

Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Weiming Lai, Fremont, CA (US);

Xin Luo, Fremont, CA (US);

Ho Yu Lam, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/40 (2022.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06N 20/20 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/1425 (2013.01); G06F 3/0611 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06N 20/20 (2019.01); H04L 63/1416 (2013.01);
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.


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