Clifford Francis Sharp

US Patent:

7380272, May 27, 2008

Filed:

Feb 20, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/078386

Inventors:

Clifford F. Sharp - Del Mar CA, US
Susan Pittman Dark - Dallas TX, US

Assignee:

Deep Nines Incorporated - Dallas TX

International Classification:

G06F 17/00

US Classification:

726 11, 726 13, 726 14

Abstract:

A traffic management system sniffs data arriving at any point in a system. The sniffer operates to extract certain data from each address. This data could be, for example, the IP address data and the physical address data. The extracted data is then used to access different data bases to determine if matches occur. Time stamps, sequencing and other parameters of each piece of data entering a system are used to control data access.

US Patent:

7865945, Jan 4, 2011

Filed:

May 23, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/126729

Inventors:

Clifford F. Sharp - Del Mar CA, US
Susan P. Dark - Dallas TX, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/30
G06F 17/00

US Classification:

726 11, 726 3, 726 2

Abstract:

A traffic management system sniffs data arriving at any point in a system. The sniffer operates to extract certain data from each address. This data could be, for example, the IP address data and the physical address data. The extracted data is then used to access different data bases to determine if matches occur. Time stamps, sequencing and other parameters of each piece of data entering a system are used to control data access.

US Patent:

20020131366, Sep 19, 2002

Filed:

Jun 6, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/875319

Inventors:

Clifford Sharp - Del Mar CA, US
Susan Dark - Dallas TX, US

International Classification:

G06F015/173
H04L001/00
H04J001/16
H04J003/14
G06F011/00
H04L012/26
G08C015/00
G01R031/08
H04L012/28
H04L012/56

US Classification:

370/235000, 370/252000, 709/223000

Abstract:

A traffic management system sniffs data arriving at any point in a system. The sniffer operates to remember certain parameters pertaining to the data. When the amount of data arriving at the point begins to reach a critical level (usually dependent upon data processing capability associated with that point), the system begins to remove (and share) subsequent arriving data based, in part, upon the remembered parameters of recently received data. Data that is stored is returned to the system when the critical threshold recedes.