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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2007
Applicants:
Ruth Schaefer Gayde, Naperville, IL (US);
Byron J. Williams, Chicago, IL (US);
Inventors:
Ruth Schaefer Gayde, Naperville, IL (US);
Byron J. Williams, Chicago, IL (US);
Assignee:
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of preventing a customer programmable device from causing security threats to itself or to a communication system is provided. The method includes establishing one or more thresholds by programming or configuring of the device, detecting whether one or more of the thresholds have been exceeded using one or more detection mechanisms, and taking action in response to each threshold that has been exceeded.