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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:
Oct. 27, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2005
Applicants:
Patrick Turley, Austin, TX (US);
Eric White, Austin, TX (US);
Inventors:
Patrick Turley, Austin, TX (US);
Eric White, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention creates a model of the traffic through a network firewall and uses that model to dynamically manipulate the network firewall based on human intervention or based on the automatic invocations of processes and protocols that implement firewall policy. Another embodiment of the invention creates a model of the physical and virtual network interfaces that a firewall system controls and presents abstracted entities representing both the interface abstractions and the processing nodes (network segments or network client devices) to and through which network traffic flows.