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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2008
Alexandre Gerber, Madison, NJ (US);
Oliver Spatscheck, Randolph, NJ (US);
Carsten Lund, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
Frederick True, Bloomsbury, NJ (US);
Ajay Todimala, Madison, NJ (US);
Jeffrey Erman, Morristown, NJ (US);
Alexandre Gerber, Madison, NJ (US);
Oliver Spatscheck, Randolph, NJ (US);
Carsten Lund, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
Frederick True, Bloomsbury, NJ (US);
Ajay Todimala, Madison, NJ (US);
Jeffrey Erman, Morristown, NJ (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property II, LP, Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
A system includes an information storage module and an inspection module. The information storage module is configured to store a plurality of tags. Each tag is associated with a known set of traffic types of a plurality of known sets of traffic types. The inspection module is configured to compare a traffic flow to a set of traffic types to determine a matching set of traffic types, request a tag from the information storage module, and mark the traffic flow with the tag. The tag corresponds to the matching set of traffic types.