Patent ID: 7453894
Filing Date: 2008-11-18
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. At a network node that sits in a communication path between a source node and a destination node, wherein the network node is remote from the source node and the destination node, a method comprising: storing, in data storage at the network node, a source profile associated with the source node and a destination profile associated with the destination node; receiving, at the network node, a message that is being communicated along the communication path from the source node to the destination node, wherein the message defines message content; at the network node, using the stored source profile and the stored destination profile in combination to determine at least one modification to make to the message content; at the network node, making the at least one modification to the message content so as to establish a modified message, wherein making the at least one modification to the message content comprises: (i) making a first modification to the message content based on the source profile so as to establish an interim message content, and (ii) making a second modification to the interim message content based on the destination profile; and sending the modified message from the network node to the communication path for transmission, in turn, to the destination node.