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Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2012

Filed:

Dec. 02, 2002
Applicants:

Hugh S. Njemanze, Los Altos, CA (US);

Pravin S. Kothari, San Jose, CA (US);

Debabrata Dash, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Shijie Wang, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Hugh S. Njemanze, Los Altos, CA (US);

Pravin S. Kothari, San Jose, CA (US);

Debabrata Dash, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Shijie Wang, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A rules engine with support for time-based rules is disclosed. A method performed by the rules engine, comprises receiving security events generated by a number of network devices. The security events are aggregated. One or more time-based rules are provided to a RETE engine. The aggregated security events are provided to the RETE engine at specific times associated with the time-based rules. The security events are cross-correlated with the one or more time-based rules; and one or more first stage meta-events are reported.


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