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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2018
Applicant:
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;
Inventors:
Assignee:
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/04 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04N 7/16 (2011.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/0414 (2013.01); H04L 63/0236 (2013.01); H04L 63/0421 (2013.01); H04L 63/102 (2013.01); H04L 2209/42 (2013.01);
Abstract
There is disclosed a method of processing a data packet received by a packet sniffer, the packet containing an associated identifier, the method including transmitting the packet to a recipient, determining if the identifier corresponds to a particular network, wherein if the identifier is determined to correspond to the particular network, the identifier is provided to the recipient; and if the identifier is determined to not correspond to the particular network, the identifier is withheld from the recipient.