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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2006
Martin Frederick Roesch, Eldersburg, MD (US);
Judy Hollis Novak, Marriottsville, MD (US);
Steven Sturges, Ellicott City, MD (US);
Martin Frederick Roesch, Eldersburg, MD (US);
Judy Hollis Novak, Marriottsville, MD (US);
Steven Sturges, Ellicott City, MD (US);
Sourcefire, Inc., Columbia, MD (US);
Abstract
A method performed in an intrusion detection/prevention system, a system or a device for analyzing segments in a transmission in a communication network. The transmission includes segments in the same transmission control protocol (TCP) session. Segments in a transmission are monitored. Data in the segments in the transmission are reassembled in an order indicated by a segment reassembly policy, the segment reassembly policy indicating an order specific to at least comprehensively overlapped segments.