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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2008
Rodney S. Canion, West Lake Hills, TX (US);
Alexander I. Tomlinson, Austin, TX (US);
Rodney S. Canion, West Lake Hills, TX (US);
Alexander I. Tomlinson, Austin, TX (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Deep packet inspection is performed on packets in a network intrusion prevention system. A processing priority may be assigned to a packet based on characteristics such as the protocol type of the packet. Higher-priority packets may be processed before lower-priority packets or otherwise given preferential processing treatment. Deep packet inspection may be performed on the packet, and the processing priority of the packet may be changed based on the amount of time required to complete inspection of the packet. For example, the processing priority of the packet may be lowered if inspection of the packet takes longer than a predetermined time threshold. Furthermore, inspection of such packets may be suspended and either terminated or resumed at a subsequent time.