Patent ID: 8428069

Claim:
A method for transferring information structures, comprising the steps of: assembling a first information structure in a source device; modifying said first information structure in said source device to violate information structure rules, thereby forming a second modified information structure, wherein said rule violations comprise one or more actions from the group consisting of violating packet structure rules, altering packet format, altering packet length, violating content rules, violating pattern rules, causing bit rate violations, causing encoding violations, causing procedural violations, causing errors, causing faults, altering fields, violating protocol rules, adding one or more bits, deleting one or more bits, rearranging one or more bits, transposing one or more bits, substituting one or more bits, permutating one or more bits, inverting one or more bits, encrypting one or more bits, altering clock synchronization, altering clock phasing, altering clock timing, altering packet subsections, altering preambles, altering synchronization bits, altering start of frame delimiters, altering headers, altering trailers, and altering flags; and transferring said second modified information structure with rule violations to a destination device.