Patent Document ID: 20120014282
Application ID: 13244082
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A machine-implemented method for the payload-content agnostic processing of a single flow, the flow comprising a plurality of information packets, and the method comprising: creating a flow block as the first packet of a flow is processed by a router; said flow block being adapted to store payload-content agnostic behavioral statistics about said flow; updating said flow block with the flow's payload-content agnostic behavioral statistics as packets belonging to said flow are processed by said router; heuristically determining whether at least one user-specified policy is satisfied by said payload-content agnostic behavioral statistics stored in said flow block; and upon determination that at least one user-specified policy is satisfied by said payload-content agnostic behavioral statistics, applying, to at least one packet belonging to said flow, at least one user-specified action that is mapped to the at least one user-specified policy that is satisfied by said payload-content agnostic behavioral statistics; wherein said payload-content agnostic behavioral statistics for said flow are calculated by said router.