Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for optimizing a firewall
- Patent Title (中): 防火墙优化的方法和装置
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Application No.: US11478829Application Date: 2006-06-30
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Publication No.: US07966655B2Publication Date: 2011-06-21
- Inventor: Subrata Acharya , Zihui Ge , Albert Gordon Greenberg , Jia Wang
- Applicant: Subrata Acharya , Zihui Ge , Albert Gordon Greenberg , Jia Wang
- Applicant Address: US GA Atlanta
- Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
- Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
- Current Assignee Address: US GA Atlanta
- Main IPC: H04L29/00
- IPC: H04L29/00

Abstract:
Disclosed is a method and system for optimizing a first set of rules enforced by a firewall on network traffic. Characteristics of the network traffic are examined and these characteristics are used to generate a second set of rules. The first set of rules may have a different order than the second set of rules.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080005795A1 Method and apparatus for optimizing a firewall Public/Granted day:2008-01-03
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