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Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2022

Filed:

Nov. 18, 2019
Applicant:

Forcepoint Llc, Austin, TX (US);

Inventor:

Jaakko Moller, Helsinki, FI;

Assignee:

Forcepoint LLC, Austin, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 41/0226 (2022.01); H04L 61/2521 (2022.01); H04L 61/256 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/0227 (2013.01); H04L 63/02 (2013.01); H04L 29/12405 (2013.01); H04L 29/12518 (2013.01); H04L 41/0226 (2013.01); H04L 63/1408 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method, system, and computer-usable medium are disclosed for: (i) communicating, from a client device to a security device via a metadata connection, metadata regarding a data connection to be established by the client device, the metadata comprising a connection identifier uniquely identifying the data connection; and (ii) communicating, from the client device to the security device via the data connection, network traffic comprising a packet that includes the connection identifier, such that the security device may use the connection identifier to index an entry associated with the metadata that the security device has stored in a metadata cache.


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