Fortinet awarded three patents

Multi-threat security solutions provider Fortinet announced that it has
recently been awarded three new patents for networking inventions by the United
States Patent and Trademark Office.

The patents strengthen the company's IP and patent portfolio and provide
the company with ownership of key innovations that ideally address the
telecommunications carrier and service provider markets, Fortinet statement
said.

The firm has been granted US patent number 7,096,383 for a system that
enables virtual router fail-over in a network routing system; US patent number
7,111,072 for a system for packet routing; and US patent number 7,116,665 for
methods and systems for supporting multiple customers via a distributed provider
edge device. These inventions pertain to how Internet-based services and
carriers can implement security, or how managed service providers (MSPs) can
deploy these services from a central device at a provider's network instead of
at a customer site. In addition to these three new patents, Fortinet has more
than 60 patents pending with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

'Carrier-based,' or 'cloud-based,' delivery of virtualized security
and other services has become the preferred method for most telcos and service
providers because it allows them to efficiency scale their security service
deployments and to do so more cost effectively,” said Ken Xie, Founder,
President and CEO, Fortinet. “These new patents both strengthen Fortinet's
intellectual property portfolio and enable us to build upon our impressive
success in the high-end market through the delivery of enhanced technology and
services,” he added.

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