Patents by Inventor Weining Wu
Weining Wu has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 12634259Abstract: Various embodiments provide systems and methods for enhancing the security of a ZTNA connection.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2022Date of Patent: May 19, 2026Assignee: Fortinet, Inc.Inventor: Weining Wu
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Patent number: 12621271Abstract: Systems and methods for performing zero-trust network access (ZTNA) secure traffic forwarding are provided. In one example, as part of setting up a transmission control protocol (TCP) forward access proxy (TFAP) tunnel, between a target service and an endpoint security agent of an endpoint device through which an application running on the endpoint device can interact with the target service, a secure connection is established between the endpoint security agent and a ZTNA access proxy (AP). Based on an encryption status of traffic transmitted from the application to the target service: (i) protection against eavesdropping by a man-in-the-middle attacker is provided by using the secure connection to encrypt one or more critical messages of the traffic between the endpoint security agent and the ZTNA AP; and (ii) the endpoint security agent abstains from switching to bypassing mode through the TFAP tunnel until after the one or more critical messages of the traffic have been exchanged.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2023Date of Patent: May 5, 2026Assignee: Fortinet, Inc.Inventors: Ying Li Wang, Wenping Luo, Feng Han, Weining Wu
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Publication number: 20250337614Abstract: Zero-trust network access (ZTNA) with user datagram protocol (UDP) message forwarding is disclosed. A forwarding rule is determined based on a destination address associated with a received data traffic packet formatted according to a first protocol (e.g., UDP). A bi-directional tunnel is created to forward the traffic based on the determined forwarding rule. A request is generated over a stream having a corresponding stream identifier within the bi-directional tunnel to establish a connection with a proxy device. The traffic packet payload formatted according to the first protocol is wrapped with at least the stream identifier. The wrapped data traffic packet is forwarded to a client device based on the determined forwarding rule to a destination device corresponding to the stream identifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2024Publication date: October 30, 2025Applicant: Fortinet, Inc.Inventors: Weining Wu, Junhao Yin
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Patent number: 12438845Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are discussed for limiting exposure of internal network operations beyond the boundary of a secure network.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2024Date of Patent: October 7, 2025Assignee: Fortinet, Inc.Inventors: Weining Wu, Kunal Marwah, Jinhai Yang, Xu Zheng
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Publication number: 20250220001Abstract: Systems and methods for performing ZTNA secure traffic forwarding are provided. In one example, as part of setting up a TFAP tunnel, between a target service and an endpoint security agent of an endpoint device through which an application running on the endpoint device can interact with the target service, a secure connection is established between the endpoint security agent and a ZTNA AP. Based on an encryption status of traffic transmitted from the application to the target service: (i) protection against eavesdropping by an MITM attacker is provided by using the secure connection to encrypt one or more critical messages of the traffic between the endpoint security agent and the ZTNA AP; and (ii) the endpoint security agent abstains from switching to bypassing mode through the TFAP tunnel until after the one or more critical messages of the traffic have been exchanged.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2023Publication date: July 3, 2025Applicant: Fortinet, Inc.Inventors: Ying Li Wang, Wenping Luo, Feng Han, Weining Wu
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Publication number: 20240205189Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are discussed for limiting exposure of internal network operations beyond the boundary of a secure network.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2024Publication date: June 20, 2024Applicant: Fortinet, Inc.Inventors: Weining Wu, Kunal Marwah, Jinhai Yang, Xu Zheng
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Publication number: 20240154938Abstract: Various embodiments provide systems and methods for enhancing the security of a ZTNA connection.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: Fortinet, Inc.Inventor: Weining Wu
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Patent number: 11956211Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are discussed for limiting exposure of internal network operations beyond the boundary of a secure network.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Fortinet, Inc.Inventors: Weining Wu, Kunal Marwah, Jinhai Yang, Xu Zheng
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Publication number: 20230060895Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are discussed for limiting exposure of internal network operations beyond the boundary of a secure network.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2021Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: Fortinet, Inc.Inventors: Weining WU, Kunal MARWAH, Jinhai YANG, Xu ZHENG
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Patent number: 10506082Abstract: Systems and methods for providing an HA IPsec VPN client. According to one embodiment, an IPsec tunnel is established by a client with a VPN gateway through a first interface. An IP address of the first interface is bound as the local endpoint of the tunnel and the IP address of the VPN gateway is bound as the remote endpoint of the tunnel. Responsive to detection by the client that a second interface of the client machine has been selected to serve as the local endpoint, an IP address of the second interface is bound as the local endpoint. An IP packet is transmitted by the client machine to the VPN gateway by generating an ESP packet including an encrypted form of the IP packet and encapsulating the ESP packet with an outer IP header including the IP address of the second interface.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2017Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: Fortinet, Inc.Inventors: GangGang Zhang, Weining Wu, Jinhai Yang
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Publication number: 20180262598Abstract: Systems and methods for providing an HA IPsec VPN client. According to one embodiment, an IPsec tunnel is established by a client with a VPN gateway through a first interface. An IP address of the first interface is bound as the local endpoint of the tunnel and the IP address of the VPN gateway is bound as the remote endpoint of the tunnel. Responsive to detection by the client that a second interface of the client machine has been selected to serve as the local endpoint, an IP address of the second interface is bound as the local endpoint. An IP packet is transmitted by the client machine to the VPN gateway by generating an ESP packet including an encrypted form of the IP packet and encapsulating the ESP packet with an outer IP header including the IP address of the second interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2017Publication date: September 13, 2018Applicant: Fortnet, Inc.Inventors: GangGang Zhang, Weining Wu, Jinhai Yang
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Patent number: 10075457Abstract: Methods and systems for integrating a sandboxing service and distributed threat intelligence within an endpoint security application are provided. According to one embodiment, The method includes file system or operating system activity relating to a file accessible to an endpoint system is monitored by an endpoint security application running on the endpoint system. The endpoint security application determines whether the file has been previously analyzed for a threat status. When a result of the determining is negative, then the endpoint security application requests the threat status by submitting the file to a remote threat analysis engine with a request to perform a threat analysis on the file. Based on the determined threat status, the endpoint security application selectively allows or disallows performance of the file system or operating system activity.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2016Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: Fortinet, Inc.Inventors: Yannick Dubuc, Hai Liu, Heng Du, Yugang Du, Jonathan K. Seanor, Weining Wu, GangGang Zhang, Ronald Foo
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Patent number: 9840138Abstract: A vehicle vibration suppressing structure includes a floor panel, a storage section, and a vibration suppressing section. The floor panel includes a general portion that extends in a vehicle front-rear direction and a vehicle width direction, and a floor pan that is provided contiguously to the general portion and that is formed in a concave shape indented toward a vehicle lower side. The storage section that covers the floor pan as viewed from a vehicle upper side is attached to the general portion, and is capable of storing a storage object. The vibration suppressing section is disposed between a lower face of the storage section and a bottom wall portion of the floor pan in a state of contact with the lower face and the bottom wall portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2016Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhiro Shirai, Wenfeng Li, Weining Wu
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Publication number: 20170289179Abstract: Methods and systems for integrating a sandboxing service and distributed threat intelligence within an endpoint security application are provided. According to one embodiment, The method includes file system or operating system activity relating to a file accessible to an endpoint system is monitored by an endpoint security application running on the endpoint system. The endpoint security application determines whether the file has been previously analyzed for a threat status. When a result of the determining is negative, then the endpoint security application requests the threat status by submitting the file to a remote threat analysis engine with a request to perform a threat analysis on the file. Based on the determined threat status, the endpoint security application selectively allows or disallows performance of the file system or operating system activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2016Publication date: October 5, 2017Applicant: Fortinet, Inc.Inventors: Yannick Dubuc, Hai Liu, Heng DU, Yugang Du, Jonathan K. Seanor, Weining Wu, GangGang Zhang, Ronald Foo
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Publication number: 20170066313Abstract: A vehicle vibration suppressing structure comprises a floor panel, a storage section, and a vibration suppressing section. The floor panel includes a general portion that extends in a vehicle front-rear direction and a vehicle width direction, and a floor pan that is provided contiguously to the general portion and that is formed in a concave shape indented toward a vehicle lower side. The storage section that covers the floor pan as viewed from a vehicle upper side is attached to the general portion, and is capable of storing a storage object. The vibration suppressing section is disposed between a lower face of the storage section and a bottom wall portion of the floor pan in a state of contact with the lower face and the bottom wall portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2016Publication date: March 9, 2017Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhiro SHIRAI, Wenfeng Li, Weining Wu