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Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2013

Filed:

Jun. 21, 2010
Applicants:

Dolapo Martin Falola, Round Rock, TX (US);

Vinit Jain, Austin, TX (US);

Shannon Marie Macalpine, Round Rock, TX (US);

Shawn Patrick Mullen, Buda, TX (US);

James Stanley Tesauro, Austin, TX (US);

Inventors:

Dolapo Martin Falola, Round Rock, TX (US);

Vinit Jain, Austin, TX (US);

Shannon Marie MacAlpine, Round Rock, TX (US);

Shawn Patrick Mullen, Buda, TX (US);

James Stanley Tesauro, Austin, TX (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 11/30 (2006.01); G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method, apparatus and computer instructions for handling intrusions. A tracer packet is sent back to an intruder causing the intrusion in response to receiving notification of an intrusion from a particular node in a network data processing system. Nodes in the network data processing system are notified of the tracer packet. Identification of the node is stored for use in tracing a route of the tracer packet through the data processing system in response to receiving a message from a node indicating receipt of the tracer packet.


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