Patents by Inventor Subrata Acharya

Subrata Acharya 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).

  • Method and apparatus for optimizing a firewall
    Patent number: 7966655
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and system for optimizing a first set of rules enforced by a firewall on network traffic. Characteristics of the network traffic are examined and these characteristics are used to generate a second set of rules. The first set of rules may have a different order than the second set of rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: Subrata Acharya, Zihui Ge, Albert Gordon Greenberg, Jia Wang
  • Method and apparatus for optimizing a firewall
    Publication number: 20080005795
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and system for optimizing a first set of rules enforced by a firewall on network traffic. Characteristics of the network traffic are examined and these characteristics are used to generate a second set of rules. The first set of rules may have a different order than the second set of rules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Inventors: Subrata Acharya, Zihui Ge, Albert Gordon Greenberg, Jia Wang