Patent ID: 7804774
Filing Date: 2010-09-28
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of policing data on a network, the method comprising: receiving a data packet at an index module of a computing device; hashing, by the index module, the data packet using one or more fields in the data packet to generate a bin identification and a user signature; processing, by the index module, the bin identification to associate the user signature with a first bin included in a plurality of bins; comparing, at a bin module of the computing device, the user signature to zero or more stored user signatures associated with the first bin; transmitting, by the bin module, the data packet to a transmission module of the computing device based on the comparing; transmitting, by the transmission module, the data packet to an output module of the computing device based on a criterion, and wherein, if a capacity of the first bin is exceeded, then the data packet is transmitted to the transmission module without comparing the user signature to the zero or more stored user signatures.