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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2007
Applicants:
Martin Casado, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Michael J. Freedman, Kingston, PA (US);
Inventors:
Martin Casado, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Michael J. Freedman, Kingston, PA (US);
Assignee:
Quova, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A computer-implemented system and method to detect and characterize middleboxes is disclosed. Embodiments of the system and method include a middlebox detection engine to provide a plurality of middlebox detection modules, and to use at least one middlebox detection module of the plurality of middlebox detection modules to determine if a middlebox exists on a path between a first communicating entity of a network and a second communicating entity of the network.