Policy-based content filtering

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8656479
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13526510

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Methods and systems for processing application-level content of network service protocols are described. According to one embodiment, a network connection is redirected by a networking subsystem implemented within a kernel of an operating system of a firewall device to a proxy module within the firewall device that is configured to support a network service protocol associated with the network connection. The proxy module retrieves one or more content processing configuration schemes associated with a matching firewall policy for the network service protocol and the network connection. The content processing configuration schemes each include multiple content processing configuration settings for each of one or more network service protocols. Application-level content of a packet stream associated with the network connection is then processed by the proxy module reassembling the application-level content from multiple packets of the packet stream and scanning the application-level content based on the retrieved content processing configuration schemes.

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  • FORTINET, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Crawford, William J Coquitlam, CA 10 457

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