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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2013
Applicant:
Fortinet, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventor:
William J. Crawford, Coquitlam, CA;
Assignee:
Fortinet, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/02 (2013.01); H04L 63/20 (2013.01); H04L 63/0245 (2013.01); H04L 63/0236 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for processing application-level content of network service protocols. According to one embodiment, one or more content processing configuration schemes are defined within a firewall device. Each of the one or more content processing configuration schemes including multiple content processing configuration settings for one or more network service protocols. The one or more content processing configuration schemes are stored by the firewall device. One or more of the stored content processing configuration schemes are associated with a firewall policy by the firewall device.