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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. 12, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 05, 2001
Applicants:
Mark J. Mcardle, Conestogo, CA;
Brent A. Johnston, Kitchener, CA;
Inventors:
Mark J. McArdle, Conestogo, CA;
Brent A. Johnston, Kitchener, CA;
Assignee:
McAfee, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/14 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Outgoing data units, such as packets, from a computer system that contain data characteristic of an operating system executing on the computer system are intercepted before they are transmitted on a network and masked to impersonate a different operating system if the network is untrusted. The masking may be to re-fingerprint the data units by replacing the data characteristic of the actual operating system with data characteristic of the different operating system. Alternatively, the masking may require discarding the data unit and not transmitting it.