Patent 7720053 was granted and assigned to Fortinet on May, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A system and method for providing IP services. A packet is received at a line interface/network module and forwarded to a virtual routing engine The virtual routing engine determines if the packet requires processing by a virtual services engine. If the packet requires processing by the virtual services engine, the packet is routed to the virtual services engine for processing.