Method and system for securely scanning network traffic

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8136152
APP PUB NO 20080192930A1
SERIAL NO

12105756

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A method and system for implementing secure network communications between a first device and a second device, at least one of the devices communicating with the other device via a firewall device, are provided. The method and system may include obtaining an encryption parameter that is shared by the first device, second device and firewall device. A data packet sent by the first device may then be copied within the firewall device, so that decryption of the copy of the data packet within a portion of the firewall device may take place. In particular, the portion of the firewall device in which decryption takes place is defined such that contents of the portion are inaccessible to an operator of the firewall device. Thus, scanning of the decrypted copy of the data packet for compliance with a predetermined criterion may take place within the firewall device, without an operator of the firewall device having access to the contents of the data packet to be transmitted. Thereafter, the original data packet can be forwarded to its originally intended recipient.

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Patent Owner(s)

  • AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P.;INTELLECTUAL VENTURES II LLC

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Balissat, Joel La Gaude, FR 9 171
Galand, Claude Saint-Paul, FR 99 6005
Le, Pennec Jean-Francois Nice, FR 94 2258
Sommerlatt, Jean-Marie Cagnes sur Mer, FR 18 341

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