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...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| 8180837 | Image spam filtering based on senders' intention analysis Systems and methods for an anti-spam detection module that can detect image spam are provided. According to one embodiment, an image spam detection process involves determining and measuring various characteristics of images that may be embedded within or otherwise ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8171555 | Determining technology-appropriate remediation for vulnerability A machine-actionable memory comprises one or more machine-actionable records arranged according to a data structure. Such a data structure may include links that respectively map between: a RID field, the contents of which denote an identification (ID) of a remediat... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166550 | Detection of undesired computer files in damaged archives Systems and methods for an anti-virus detection module that can detect known undesired computer files in damaged archives that may be encrypted, compressed and/or password-protected are provided. According to one embodiment, a damaged or incomplete RAR, CAB or ZIP a... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166547 | Method, apparatus, signals, and medium for managing a transfer of data in a data network A method and apparatus for managing a transfer of data in a data network identifies data associated with a communication session between a first node and a second node in the data network. Further processing of the communication session occurs when a portion of the ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8151355 | Detection of undesired computer files in archives Systems and methods that can detect known undesired computer files in protected archives are provided. According to one embodiment, an archive file in transit across a network as an attachment to an email message destined for a client workstation is scanned, without... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8151109 | Selective authorization of the loading of dependent code modules by running processes Systems and methods for selective authorization of dependent code modules are provided. According to one embodiment, file system or operating system activity relating to a first code module is initiated by a running process associated with a second code module. The ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8140660 | Content pattern recognition language processor and methods of using the same A device for detecting network traffic content is provided. The device includes a processor configured to receive a signature associated with content desired to be detected, and execute one or more functions based on the signature to determine whether network traffi... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8130644 | Mechanism for enabling load balancing to be achieved in a loop-free switching path, reverse path learning network A mechanism is disclosed for enabling load balancing to be achieved in a loop-free switching path, reverse path learning network, such as an Ethernet network. The network is divided into a plurality of virtual networks, with each virtual network providing a differen... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125996 | Mechanism for enabling layer two host addresses to be shielded from the switches in a network Methods and systems for shielding layer two host addresses (e.g., MAC addresses) from a network are provided. According to one embodiment, a border component of a network of switches receives a first packet intended for a first host having a first L2 address and a f... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8107376 | Managing hierarchically organized subscriber profiles Methods are provided for managing hierarchically organized subscriber profiles. According to one embodiment, a policy engine of a VR defines services available to subscribers in terms of profile identifiers. A scalable subscriber profile database is established havi... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103727 | Use of global intelligence to make local information classification decisions Methods and systems are provided for delaying local information classification until global intelligence has an opportunity to be gathered. According to one embodiment, an initial information identification process, e.g., an initial spam detection, is performed on r... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8085776 | Methods and systems for a distributed provider edge Methods and Systems are provided for a distributed Provider Edge (PE). A single Virtual Routing and Forwarding device (VRF) is associated with a single customer site. The VRF includes a single routing table (RIB) and a single forwarding table (FIB). The VRF also inc... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8079084 | Virus co-processor instructions and methods for using such Various embodiments of the present invention provide elements that may be utilized for improved virus processing. As one example, a computer readable medium is disclosed that includes a virus signature compiled for execution on a virus co-processor. The virus signat... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8074280 | Detection of undesired computer files in archives Systems and methods for an anti-virus detection module that can detect known undesired computer files in archives that may be encrypted, compressed and/or password-protected are provided. According to one embodiment, a method is provided for detection of malicious o... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069487 | Cloud-based application whitelisting Systems and methods for allowing authorized code to execute on a computer system are provided. According to one embodiment, an in-memory cache is maintained having entries containing execution authorization information regarding recently used modules. After authenti... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8069233 | Switch management system and method A system and method of managing a switch includes installing a switch having a plurality of processor elements, installing an operating system on each processor element, creating a system virtual router and configuring the processor elements from the system virtual ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068503 | Network packet steering via configurable association of processing resources and netmods or line interface ports Methods and systems are provided for steering network packets. According to one embodiment, a mapping associates a processing resource with a network interface module (netmod) and/or a number of line interface ports included within the netmod. In one embodiment, the... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064462 | Service processing switch Methods and systems for providing IP services in an integrated fashion are provided. According to one embodiment, a system includes a switch fabric and a line interface/network module, multiple virtual routing engines (VREs) and a virtual services engine (VSE) coupl... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8056135 | Systems and methods for updating content detection devices and systems A method of updating a content detection module includes obtaining content detection data, and transmitting the content detection data to a content detection module, wherein the transmitting is performed not in response to a request from the content detection module... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8051483 | Systems and methods for updating content detection devices and systems A method of updating a content detection module includes obtaining content detection data, and transmitting the content detection data to a content detection module, wherein the transmitting is performed not in response to a request from the content detection module... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8020202 | Firewall interface configuration to enable bi-directional VoIP traversal communications Methods and systems for an intelligent network protection gateway (NPG) and network architecture are provided. According to one embodiment, a firewall provides network-layer protection to internal hosts against unauthorized access by hosts of an external network by ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8001600 | Centralized data transformation A method of facilitating transformation of survey data from being in at least one foreign format used by a survey-tool to being in a desired format may include: receiving instances of foreign data from survey-tools, the foreign data being in foreign format used by t... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7979543 | Systems and methods for categorizing network traffic content A method for categorizing network traffic content includes determining a first characterization of the network traffic content determining a first probability of accuracy associated with the first characterization, and categorizing the network traffic content based ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7970848 | Electronic message and data tracking system Systems and methods for tracking electronic messages and data are provided. In one embodiment, the invention consists of a method of tracking email messages. In various embodiments, steps may include a) identifying an email message for tracking and b) inserting a li... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7966654 | Computerized system and method for policy-based content filtering Firewalls and other filtering gateways have become common security devices for improving computer network security. As more features and functionality are added to these devices they become quite complex to configure. By associating configuration schemes with firewa... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7961615 | Managing hierarchically organized subscriber profiles Methods are provided for managing hierarchically organized subscriber profiles. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a subscriber connection is created with a virtual router operable within a telecommunications system of a service provider. A connec... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7957407 | Heterogeneous media packet bridging Methods and systems for bridging Ethernet frames transmitted over heterogeneous media channels are provided. According to one embodiment, multiple Ethernet frames encapsulated within multiple in-bound media transmissions having different media formats are received v... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957374 | Mechanism for enabling layer two host addresses to be shielded from the switches in a network A mechanism is disclosed that enables layer two host addresses (e.g. a MAC addresses) to be shielded from a network. In one implementation, the mechanism updates each packet sent by the hosts into the network to indicate that the source layer two (L2) address for th... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7944946 | Virtual memory protocol segmentation offloading Methods and systems for a more efficient transmission of network traffic are provided. According to one embodiment, a method is provided for performing segmentation offloading, such as TCP segmentation offloading (TSO). An interface performs direct virtual memory ad... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7933269 | Hardware-accelerated packet multicasting in a virtual routing system Methods and systems are provided for hardware-accelerated packet multicasting in a virtual routing system. According to one embodiment, a multicast packet is received at an ingress system of a packet-forwarding engine (PFE). The ingress system identifies flow classi... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7890663 | Identifying nodes in a ring network Methods are provided for determining a master node on a ring network. According to one embodiment, a first node on the ring network initiates circulation of an arbitration token by (i) determining an arbitration token timeout period has elapsed and (ii) transmitting... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7885207 | Managing and provisioning virtual routers Methods and systems are provided for provisioning and managing network-based virtual private networks (VPNs). According to one embodiment, virtual routers (VRs) distributed among service processing switches are provisioned by a service management system (SMS) to sup... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7881244 | Scalable IP-services enabled multicast forwarding with efficient resource utilization Methods, apparatus and data structures are provided for managing multicast IP flows. According to one embodiment, a memory of a router has stored therein a data structure, which includes information relating to multicast sessions being handled by the router and incl... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7876683 | Managing hierarchically organized subscriber profiles Methods are provided for managing hierarchically organized subscriber profiles. According to one embodiment, subscriber services are modified without requiring a change to the subscriber's first-level profile identifier and without requiring the subscriber to reesta... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7873060 | Accelerating data communication using tunnels Methods and systems are provided for increasing application performance and accelerating data communications in a WAN environment. According to one embodiment, a method is provided for securely accelerating network traffic. One or more tunnels are established betwee... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7869361 | Managing hierarchically organized subscriber profiles Apparatus are provided for managing hierarchically organized subscriber profiles. According to one embodiment, a router includes a subscriber manager, a database and a virtual interface. The subscriber manager is operable to receive a connection request from a subsc... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7854008 | Software-hardware partitioning in a virus processing system Various embodiments of the present invention provide circuits and methods for improved virus processing. As one example, a method for virus processing is disclosed that includes providing a first memory that includes a first set of virus signatures, and a second mem... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7843813 | Managing hierarchically organized subscriber profiles Apparatus are provided for managing hierarchically organized subscriber profiles. According to one embodiment, a router includes multiple virtual interfaces and a policy engine. The virtual interfaces define connections between the router and corresponding subscribe... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7818452 | Distributed virtual system to support managed, network-based services Methods and systems are provided for allocating network resources of a distributed virtual system to support managed, network-based services. According to one embodiment, a VR-based switch having multiple processing elements is configured for operation at an Interne... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7808904 | Method and apparatus for managing subscriber profiles Methods and apparatus for managing subscriber profiles are described herein. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving, from a requester, a request to determine an operation to be performed on a data packet. The method also includes determining profile identi... | 10/05/2010 |
