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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8191132 | Scalable transparent proxy A facility for proxying network traffic between a pair of nodes is described. The facility receives packets traveling between the pair of nodes that together constitute a distinguished network connection. For each packet of the connection that is part of a transport... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8191131 | Obscuring authentication data of remote user A system and method in which authentication data, such as a password, which is sent to a server/firewall as part of an authentication request, for example a logon request, is received at the server/firewall in a plurality of messages at a plurality of logical ports ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185943 | Network adapter firewall system and method A network adapter system and associated method are provided. Included is a network adapter having a plurality of designated trusted and untrusted ports. The network adapter includes a processor coupled to a computer. Such processor is further coupled to a network vi... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181237 | Method for improving security of computer networks A method of preventing unauthorized user access to a computer network has been developed. The method includes receiving a domain name server resolution request at the computer network from a requesting user. Next a reply to the requesting user is generated with a do... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176544 | Network security system having a device profiler communicatively coupled to a traffic monitor A system and method for providing distributed security of a network. Several device profilers are placed at different locations of a network to assess vulnerabilities from different perspectives. The device profiler identifies the hosts on the network, and character... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176543 | Enabling network communication from role based authentication Network communications are secured on clients that do not have a user properly logged in and authenticated. The clients have transmit and/or receive functionality disabled. When a user logs into the client and is properly authenticated, the transmit and/or receive f... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171537 | Method of securely controlling through one or more separate private networks an internet-connected computer having one or more hardware-based inner firewalls or access barriers A method of securely controlling through a private network a computer protected by a hardware-based inner access barrier or firewall and configured to operate as a general purpose computer connected to the Internet, comprising: two separate network connections separ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166534 | Incorporating network connection security levels into firewall rules Embodiments of the present invention are directed to establishing and/or implementing firewall rules that may employ parameters based on connection security levels for a connection between devices. A firewall may thus provide greater granularity of security and inte... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166535 | Universal media firewall A universal media firewall allows a parent to control filtering of multiple media providers via a single firewall policy. The firewall(s) may be a stand-alone device or may be preformed with software on a home computer or at a remote site. Parental controls are acce... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166536 | Transformation of network filter expressions to a content addressable memory format A network device, such as a firewall, may be configured to filter network traffic. The filter may include regular expressions that are converted by the firewall into a format that can be stored in a ternary content addressable memory. In one exemplary implementation... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166533 | Method for providing media communication across firewalls The present invention supports a method for transmitting information packets across network firewalls. A trusted entity is provisioned with an address designation for a pinhole through the firewall during setup of a communication session between two communication de... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161538 | Stateful application firewall A method and system to protect web applications from malicious attacks is described. A stateful means of distinguishing between valid (e.g., harmless) and invalid (e.g., harmful) accesses is provided. A request from a content browser for content from an application ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8151337 | Applying firewalls to virtualized environments Each virtualized environment on a computer has its own set of firewall rules. The virtualized environments share a single instance of the operating system image, a filter engine and a single network stack. A virtualized environment may be a compartment or a server s... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8146144 | Method and system for the transparent transmission of data traffic between data processing devices, corresponding computer program product, and corresponding computer-readable storage medium The invention relates to a method and a system for the transparent transmission of data traffic between data processing devices, a corresponding program product, and a corresponding computer-readable storage medium, which can be used especially for transparently ins... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8146145 | Method and apparatus for enabling enhanced control of traffic propagation through a network firewall A distributed firewall system is used to implement a network firewall with enhanced control over network traffic to allow policy to be implemented on a per-user basis, a per-application basis, a per-user and application basis, and to allow ports to be dynamically op... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8146147 | Combined firewalls A method of providing a firewall to protect a set of virtual machines on a host node that is one of multiple host nodes that host virtual machines. The method stores a table of allowed connections for each virtual machine on the host node. Upon a particular virtual ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8146146 | Method and apparatus for integrated network security alert information retrieval A method and apparatus are disclosed whereby databases containing information related to an IP address are accessed directly from within a threat management software tool. When an alert is generated, an element within that alert, such as an IP address, is linked to ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8136149 | Security system with methodology providing verified secured individual end points A security system with methodology providing verified secured individual end points is described. In one embodiment, for example, a method of the present invention is described for controlling access to a particular application, the method comprises steps of: defini... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8132247 | Systems and methods for authorizing a client in an SSL VPN session failover environment The SSL VPN session failover solution of the appliance and/or client agent described herein provides an environment for handling IP address assignment and end point re-authorization upon failover. The appliances may be deployed to provide a session failover environm... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8132248 | Managing configurations of a firewall A method and system for managing multiple firewall configurations are disclosed. The method uses a pointer on a packet object representing a packet to reference a configuration object representing a configuration of the firewall which is assigned to the packet. By u... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127347 | Virtual firewall The present invention provides a firewall device that is divided into several virtual firewalls. The users in the Intranet are divided into several user groups based on different security policy demands. Each virtual firewall is equipped with the security policy of ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122492 | Integration of social network information and network firewalls A firewall functions normally to pass data on open ports to a respective service or endpoint associated with an open port. Invitations may sent to from an internal endpoint to an external peer-to-peer network endpoint inviting a connection back to the internal endpo... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8122493 | Firewall based on domain names The invention is a firewall capable of blocking access to a website or other Internet node based on a domain name. A DNS request is monitored and a domain name is decoded from the DNS request. An IP address is received in a response to the DNS request. The IP addres... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8108924 | Providing a firewall's connection data in a comprehendible format Techniques are disclosed for providing connection data related to a firewall. In one aspect, computer-readable media provide a method that includes receiving a request for a set of connection parameters of a firewall related to data packets processed by at least one... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108923 | Assessing risk based on offline activity history Controlling access to a protected network is disclosed. In some embodiments, one or more events that occur will a host is disconnected from the protected network are logged. The log is provided to one or more devices associated with the protected network when the ho... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8099775 | Virtual firewall system based on commons security policy and method of controlling the same A virtual firewall system based on a common security policy and a method of controlling the same. The virtual firewall system includes one or more virtual security policy modules, each of which includes a local security policy database; a security policy determiner,... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099774 | Dynamic updating of firewall parameters The dynamic updating of firewall parameters is described. One exemplary embodiment includes receiving a policy rule that includes a reference to a predefined container that specifies a permissible value range of at least one firewall parameter allowable under the po... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099773 | Network scan system passing through firewall and method of organizing the same A network scan system includes a network scanner accessible by a computer and capable of communicating with the computer through a firewall. A method of operating the network scan system includes installing a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) server module into the... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8082578 | Intelligent firewall An intelligent firewall that prevents unauthorized access to a system has been developed. The fire wall does not use a communication address. It receives a data packet and analyzes it to determine its final disposition. Finally, the firewall handles the data packet ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8079073 | Distributed firewall implementation and control One or more devices on a network may be configured to provide firewall services for other devices on the network. Each of the firewall service suppliers may publish its capability with respect to firewall services and the service receivers may publish their requirem... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8079074 | Dynamic security shielding through a network resource Architecture for facilitating access of remote system software functionality by a host machine for the redirection of incoming and/or outgoing host traffic through the remote system for protection services to the host machine. The host machine can gain the benefits ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8079072 | Null-packet transmission from inside a firewall to open a communication window for an outside transmitter A high-bandwidth direct communication path between two clients is used for voice or video calls over the Internet. An opening or a window in a firewall is made for the direct path by sending a null packet out from inside the firewall. The null packet can be a UDP pa... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8065719 | Method and apparatus for reducing firewall rules A method and apparatus for reducing obsolete firewall rules are disclosed. The present invention addresses the issue by using existing network routing information as well as firewall rule configuration information to help analyze firewall access logs to identify obs... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060925 | Processor, memory, computer system, and method of authentication A processor communicating with a first memory configured to store first information and first data, and communicating with a second memory configured to store second information and second data, includes a computing unit configured to perform computation using the f... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8056124 | Automatically generating rules for connection security A method and system for creating security policies for firewall and connection policies in an integrated manner is provided. The security system provides a user interface through which a user can define a security rule that specifies both a firewall policy and a con... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8046828 | Security management system for monitoring firewall operation A test method for Internet-Protocol packet networks that verifies the proper functioning of a dynamic pinhole filtering implementation as well as quantifying network vulnerability statistically, as pinholes are opened and closed is described. Specific potential secu... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8042167 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for network firewall policy optimization Methods, systems, and computer program products for firewall policy optimization are disclosed. According to one method, a firewall policy including an ordered list of firewall rules is defined. For each rule, a probability indicating a likelihood of receiving a pac... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8042168 | Computer maintenance method and system Provided is a method of remotely maintaining a computer system connected to a first private network of a first organization from a maintenance computer connected to a second private network of a second organization. The first and second private networks are connecte... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8042166 | Printing via user equipment In one embodiment of a method of printing in a network, a connection is established from a user equipment to a printing system. A secure connection is established between the user equipment and a server. From the user equipment, a file on the server is selected. Fro... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8037518 | Data processing hash algorithm and policy management Methods and associated systems for processing data are disclosed. A hashing function sequentially processes a hash key to generate a hash value. A policy management system processes packets according to defined policies. ... | 10/11/2011 |
