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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2019
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;
Catherine White, London, GB;
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;
Abstract
A network device detecting possible malicious traffic and enlists the help of a co-operative group of downstream routers to perform enhanced deep packet analysis and firewalling in parallel with the transport of the packet through the network. The routers may also use other remote computational resource to perform some of the analysis along or close to the routeof the packet through the network. The packets are cached at the exit edge router, which does not release the packet from the cooperative group until all analyzers report the traffic is safe, or deletes the traffic if identified as malicious. By buffering at the remote end the packet can be forwarded promptly if approved, but protects downstream components if the traffic is malicious. Routing policies through the network are chosen according to initial estimates of the likelihood that a packet will be permitted to be forwarded from the downstream router, and of the time likely to be taken to reach a decision, allowing cache capacity requirements to be minimized by using higher-latency routes for packets unlikely to be forwarded promptly.