Patent ID: 7644283
Filing Date: 2010-01-05
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for detecting and analyzing sites suspected of transferring steganographic communications, the method comprising the steps of: analyzing a suspected site for steganographic communications at the direction of a server wherein the steganographic communications have been previously encoded using a steganographic encoding process, and further wherein the server initiates the analyzing prior to identifying the steganographic encoding process to surreptitiously surveil the hiding of subversive communications by the suspected site based on parameters provided by the server, wherein the server directs a plurality of clients to collectively analyze the suspected site; directing a first client to analyze a portion of the suspected site, wherein the first client analyzes the suspected site based on said parameters of the server and wherein the first client analyzes the suspected site prior to identifying the steganographic encoding process and wherein the first client returns results of the analysis to the server; dispatching a second client from the plurality of clients to analyze a portion of the suspected site based on the results of the first client and said parameters of the server and wherein the second client returns results of the analysis to the server; repeating the dispatching step for each of the plurality of clients utilized in the analysis until the server operational parameters for analyzing the suspected site have been satisfied; and aggregating the results from the plurality of clients and analyzing the results to determine if a steganographic communication is present at the suspected site.