Information security – Access control or authentication
Reexamination Certificate
2007-11-13
2007-11-13
Vu, Kim (Department: 2135)
Information security
Access control or authentication
C713S194000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10295391
ABSTRACT:
Methods, apparatuses and systems allowing for bandwidth management schemes responsive to utilization characteristics associated with individual users. In one embodiment, the present invention allows network administrators to penalize users who carry out specific questionable or suspicious activities, such as the use of proxy tunnels to disguise the true nature of the data flows in order to evade classification and control by bandwidth management devices. In one embodiment, each individual user may be accorded an initial suspicion score. Each time the user is associated with a questionable or suspicious activity (for example, detecting the set up of a connection to an outside HTTP tunnel, or peer-to-peer application flow), his or her suspicion score is downgraded. Data flows corresponding to users with sufficiently low suspicion scores, in one embodiment, can be treated in a different manner from data flows associated with other users. For example, different or more rigorous classification rules and policies can be applied to the data flows associated with suspicious users.
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Hill Mark
Purvy Robert E.
Riddle Guy
Packeteer, Inc.
Pan Joseph
Spolyar Mark J.
Vu Kim
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