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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2019
Applicant:
Nxp B.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Inventors:
Bernd Uwe Gerhard Elend, Hamburg, DE;
Donald Robert Pannell, Cupertino, CA (US);
Steffen Mueller, Hamburg, DE;
Philip Axer, Hamburg, DE;
Assignee:
NXP B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 69/22 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/20 (2013.01); H04L 63/10 (2013.01); H04L 63/105 (2013.01); H04L 63/162 (2013.01); H04L 69/22 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, an Ethernet communications device includes a physical layer (PHY) unit or a media access control (MAC) unit configured to perform media access control for the Ethernet communications device. The Ethernet communications device includes a security unit configured to manipulate a data stream in a data path within the Ethernet communications device when the data stream violates or conforms to a pre-defined policy.