Patent ID: 11936748
Assignee: CENSYS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. The system as recited in claim 1,
wherein the continuous scanning engine further comprises one or more scan gates that are configured to:
create individual keys of individual attempts to communicate with the at least some ports of the at least some network addresses based at least in part on the respective network address and the respective port number of the attempt to communicate;
maintain a count of the individual keys;
receive a request to communicate with a first port at a first network address;
determine that the count of the key associated with the individual attempts to communicate with the first port at the first network address is above a threshold; and
deny the request to communicate with the first port at the first network address; and

wherein prior to the attempt to communicate with the at least some ports at the at least some network addresses using the plurality of different application-layer communication protocols, the one or more protocol inspection components are further configured to:
determine, from the one or more scan gates, that the attempt to communicate with the first port at the first network address is not allowed, and that the attempt to communicate with a second port at a second network address is allowed; and
attempt to communicate with the second port at the second network address, while not attempting to communicate with the first port at the first network address.