Patent 9544273 was granted and assigned to Trend Micro on January, 2017 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A system for processing network traffic includes a hardware-accelerated inspection unit to process network traffic in hardware-accelerated inspection mode, and a software inspection unit to process the network traffic in software inspection mode. The software inspection unit processes a connection in in the software inspection mode at least for a consecutive predetermined number of bytes of the connection. The connection may be transitioned to the hardware-accelerated inspection mode if the connection is determined to be clean.