Patent ID: 8856884

Claim:
A method for managing a transfer of data between a first node and a second node in a data network, the method comprising: identifying data associated with a first communication session between the first node and the second node; identifying, through execution of instructions on a processor, a signature associated with said data associated with said first communication session; further processing, through execution of instructions on the processor, said first communication session when a portion of said first communication session meets a criterion, the criterion including the identified signature associated with said first communication session, the further processing defined by a policy associated with the identified signature and including at least one action to be performed by the further processing, the at least one action including logging at least a portion of data packets associated with said first communication session, altering of data packets associated with said first communication session prior to transmitting the data packets to at least one of the first node and the second node, the altering of data packets including inserting a message or removing certain data as specified by the policy associated with the identified signature, terminating the first communication session at a third node, and dividing the first communication session between the first node and the third node and a second communication session between the third node and the second node, the third node to act as a proxy node; and permitting said first communication session to continue when said portion of said first communication session does not meet said criterion or upon completion of the further processing.