Patent ID: 8959573
Filing Date: 2015-02-17
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for processing data messages in a network device connected to a dynamic computer network, the method comprising: implementing a mission plan specifying a set of filtering rules to be applied to messages received at each of the plurality of network devices based on a message type and a message distance vector; determining a message type of a received data message generated in accordance with the mission plan from among a plurality of different message types based on at least one identity parameter value included in the received data message and useful for identifying a network node; on a condition that the message type is a false message, determining whether the message distance vector of the false message has been exhausted; on a condition that the distance vector of the false message has been exhausted, dropping the received data message; and on a condition that the distance vector of the false message has not been exhausted, transmitting the received data message in accordance with the mission plan.