The US Navy has applied for a Patent that consists of new firewall technology.
This story is about the US Navy filing a patent application for what apparently seems to be a firewall of some sort.
The application reads:
In a communication system having a plurality of networks, a method of achieving network separation between first and second networks is described. First and second networks with respective first and second degrees of trust are defined, the first degree of trust being higher than the second degree of trust. Communication between the first and second networks is enabled via a network interface system having a protocol stack, the protocol stack implemented by the network interface system in an application layer. Data communication from the second network to the first network is enabled while data communication from the first network to the second network is minimized.
Sounds like a firewall to me, but how can this be? How can the US Navy try to patent such a virtually ubiquitous creation?
One individual has hypothesized that it is “…almost definetly(sic) a machine to sit between two physically separate networks, i.e. one network for say, unclassified work and another network for classified usage.”
Either way, since the standard operating procedure when it comes to patent application filing is to start general and then move towards the specific, there is certainly much more information to come in regards to this application. One can only speculate when and how this will occur.
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