Comment Read the Disclosure People (Score 1) 206
1] The disclosure lists the inventors, but does not list an assignee. That means that the inventors own the patent, not the US Navy. You are being befuddled by the name of the place these guys work. Try doing a USPTO search with Microsoft as assignee to see what a patent looks like when the inventors don't own the patent rights.
2] It's not a patent for *THE* firewall, which everyone already knows about. It's for partitioning a trusted network, which means that the network itself can be certified as a C2 or B1 secure network. Try looking up operating systems which support those kinds of security - they've been around since the 80's.
2] It's not a patent for *THE* firewall, which everyone already knows about. It's for partitioning a trusted network, which means that the network itself can be certified as a C2 or B1 secure network. Try looking up operating systems which support those kinds of security - they've been around since the 80's.
