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Fault injection methods and apparatus

Patent 7185232 Issued on February 27, 2007. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject February 28, 2022. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

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Application

No. 10087000 filed on 02/28/2002

US Classes:

714/41, For reliability enhancing component (e.g., testing backup spare, or fault injection)714/32, Particular stimulus creation726/23, Intrusion detection726/25, Vulnerability assessment709/208, MASTER/SLAVE COMPUTER CONTROLLING709/224Computer network monitoring

Examiners

Primary: Beausoliel, Robert
Assistant: Guyton, Philip

Attorney, Agent or Firm

International Class

G06F 11/00

Abstract

A method of testing a target in a network by fault injection, includes: defining a transaction baseline; modifying at least one of an order and a structure of the transaction baseline to obtain a modified transaction with malformed grammar; and transmitting the modified transaction to a target. The method may further include, receiving a feedback from the target to determine fault occurrence. An apparatus for testing a target in a network by fault injection, includes: a driver configured to generate patterns, where a pattern can generate a plurality of packets for transmission to the target, the pattern being represented by an expression with a literal string and a wild character class; and a network interface coupled to the driver and configured to transmit and receive network traffic.

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