Patent ID: 8095677
Filing Date: 2012-01-10
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for generating one or more network application configuration rules, comprising: receiving, at a processing system, a plurality of input addresses; generating, at the processing system, an acyclic tree having leaf nodes corresponding to the plurality of input addresses, each input address having an input address size measurable in bits and the acyclic tree comprising a binary tree with a depth of at least the input address size; and generating, at the processing system, based at least in part on the tree and a tolerance value, one or more rules, wherein the one or more rules reference the plurality of input addresses and zero or more additional addresses, the number of the additional addresses referenced being controlled based at least in part on the tolerance value, and each of the one or more rules comprises a Classless Internet Domain Routing (CIDR) expression determined based at least in part on a depth of a corresponding node in the acyclic tree.