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Symantec has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Zscaler, asserting violation of seven Symantec patents across a variety of network security technologies including web security, data loss prevention, threat prevention, access control and antivirus techniques. This lawsuit is based on U.S. Patent Nos. 6,279,113; 7,203,959; 7,246,227; 7,392,543; 7,735,116; 8,181,036; and 8,661,498.
https://www.symantec.com/about/newsroom/press-releases/2016/symantec_1212_01
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From the Graveyard
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Blue Coat Systems built Secure web gateways, proxies and WAN optimization. What became of it?
Blue Coat Systems brought Secure web gateways, proxies and WAN optimization to Networking. That work was distinctive enough to lead to its acquisition by Symantec for US$4.65B. The standalone name now passes into the archive — but the team and technology continue inside Symantec today. One of 430 names here whose work outlived the company.
From the Technology Graveyard
You just read about All. A technology from the archive that helped get us here:
Google/Alphabet Project Loon served 2011–2021. What ultimately replaced it?
Google/Alphabet Project Loon solar-powered balloons drifting in the stratosphere (~20 km), steering by rising and falling into different wind layers, relaying LTE from ground stations to phones far below. Its job passed to Unit economics — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
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