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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2011

Filed:

Nov. 19, 2003
Applicants:

Preetham Kajekar, Bangalore, IN;

Sandeep R. Hebbani, Bangalore, IN;

Inventors:

Preetham Kajekar, Bangalore, IN;

Sandeep R. Hebbani, Bangalore, IN;

Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 7/04 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method of determining network penetration (which may be carried on a computer readable medium) and an apparatus for performing the method are disclosed. The method includes the computer-implemented step of simulating a packet traveling in a network based on topology data and on security policy data, and providing output related to results of the step of simulating.


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