Patents by Inventor Patrick McHardy

Patrick McHardy has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Stateful firewall clustering for processing-intensive network applications
    Publication number: 20080098113
    Abstract: A system and method for balancing network traffic that includes a master node addressable by an external device, at least one slave node addressable by the master node, at least one filter running on the master node and the at least one slave node, and a clusterware application running on the master node and the at least one slave node. The clusterware application distributes the network traffic between the master node and the at least one slave node. Techniques for using the same are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2006
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Inventors: Gert Hansen, Patrick McHardy, Ulrich Weber, Stephan Scholz