Appeal No. 2006-1084
Reexamination Control No. 90/006,334
1 and determining user-generated contextual information
2 contained within said multi-packet communications;
3
4 a rule base store having a plurality of rules relating
5 to controlling access to said resources of said network;
6 and
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8 means for controlling said access based upon
9 matching said rules to said sources, destinations and user-
10 generated contextual information from said means for
11 determining, said means for controlling being enabled to
12 apply rule actions to those said discrete transmissions for
13 which said matching indicates a restriction, said means
14 for controlling further being enabled to allow continuous
15 flow of packets of said discrete transmissions to remain
16 unhindered when said rules indicate an unrestricted
17 transmission on a basis of said multi-packet
18 communications.
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20 18. The ‘786 Patent describes “non-intrusive” monitoring of data
21 packets in the network as one performed not at choke points in the network
22 (‘786 Patent, col. 6, lines 14-16) and one in which “there will be no impact
23 on performance of the network.” (‘786 Patent, col. 7, lines 17-20.)
24 19. “Non-intrusive monitoring of network traffic,” as referred to in
25 the ‘786 Patent, occurs by both receiving and assembling data packets of
26 node-to-node transmissions. (‘786 Patent, col. 6, lines 49-51.)
27 20. In Stein, on page 405, it is stated:
28 If you have an extra router available, an attractive
29 alternative is to create a small screened subnetwork for
30 the sole use of the Web server (Figure 14.4). The router
31 separates the Web server from the rest of the internal
32 network; its rules allow the Web server to talk to the
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