[April 11, 2012] Symbol Technologies Assigned Patent Tweet (Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Symbol Technologies, Holtsville, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,156,544) developed by James R. Fuccello, Patchogue, N.Y., for a "system and method for a WPAN firewall." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methodologies for implementing Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) security are provided herein. As disclosed herein, firewall functionality can be implemented for a WPAN-capable device to control access to resources of the device over a WPAN. In one example, a WPAN protocol can be extended to include low-level access control measures that enable analysis of communication requests to and/or from a device prior to acting on the requests. As described herein, a WPAN firewall associated with a device can be configured to block, monitor, and/or log respective resource accesses to and/or from a WPAN. WPAN firewall functionality as described herein can be configured using mechanisms such as an Application Programming Interface (API) and/or a user control interface. Additionally, lateral regulation of security policies for a WPAN and one or more other networks utilized by a device can be provided." The patent application was filed on Aug. 20, 2008 (12/195,085). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,156,544&OS=8,156,544&RS=8,156,544 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. SR0411HP0411-724709 (c) 2012 Targeted News Service [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]