Patent ID: 7814204
Filing Date: 2010-10-12
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A processor device-implemented method of determining an indicator of a desired sub-class of service for resource requests, the method comprising performing the following steps in, by or for one or more processor devices: receiving the resource requests having one resource request corresponding to an OSI layer 4 and another resource request corresponding to an OSI layer 5 or higher, wherein the resource requests are embodied as or spawned by a packet, and which are accompanied by or associated with an indicator of a desired class of service for the request derived from one or more non-content, header fields of the packet; when the indicator of the desired class of service for the request indicates the desired class of service is at a layer in an applicable reference model corresponding to the OSI layer 4, refraining from performing content analysis processing of the resource request; when the indicator of the desired class of service for the request indicates the desired class of service is at a layer in an applicable reference model corresponding to the OSI layer 5 or higher, performing content analysis processing of the resource request comprising the following sub-steps: wherein, the resource request comprises an https header, and the key from the resource request having an https header is derived solely from the indicator of the desired class of service, and the content analysis processing of the resource request further comprises extracting a SSL identifier string from the https header for allocating a resource to the resource request.