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Patent Inventor Names
Martin Casado0
Michael J. Freedman0
Date of Patent
June 19, 2012
0Patent Application Number
118557450
Date Filed
September 14, 2007
0Patent Citations Received
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Patent abstract
A computer-implemented system and method to detect and characterize middleboxes is disclosed. Embodiments of the system and method include a middlebox detection engine to provide a plurality of middlebox detection modules, and to use at least one middlebox detection module of the plurality of middlebox detection modules to determine if a middlebox exists on a path between a first communicating entity of a network and a second communicating entity of the network.
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