Patent ID: 8010469

Claim:
A method in a flow processing facility for securing a computer resource, comprising: receiving a data flow in a data flow processing facility comprising a plurality of network addressable data processing modules; identifying data packets associated with a subscriber profile in the data flow; employing a set of artificial neurons, the artificial neurons comprising a policy, to make a determination indicating which of a plurality of network addresses of the plurality of the network addressable data processing modules to select for first processing of the identified data packets based on at least one of the subscriber profile and a pattern that is detectable in the data flow based on the policy; accessing a configuration, the configuration associating two or more processing actions with the policy; delivering the identified data packets to a first network addressable data processing module, wherein the first network addressable data processing module comprises a processor for executing one of the actions that are associated with the policy, the first network addressable data processing module being accessible at the network address that the determination indicates, the one of the actions modifying the data flow; determining a second network address of a second network addressable data processing module for a second processing of the identified data packets based on the configuration and at least one of the subscriber profile and the policy; and delivering the identified data packets from the first network address to the second network address to secure a computer resource.