Intelligent delivery of data packets within a network transmission path based on time intervals
AssigneeBank of America Corporation
InventorsManu Jacob Kurian, Jayachandra Varma, Saritha Vrittamani
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Abstract
Intelligent delivery/transmission of data within a secure transmission path of a distributed computing network. A plurality of logical switches are disposed throughout a secure transmission path between a source and target. A controller is configured to control a timing for delivery and/or routing of the data packets to the target apparatus by activating and deactivating the logical switches. In addition, activation of two or more switches provides for isolating data, such that, inline processing (e.g., security checks or the like) can be performed on the data.
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A system for intelligent delivery of data packets within a secure transmission path, the system comprising:
- a distributed computing network including:
- at least one source apparatus in communication with the distributed computing network and configured for transmitting a data set comprising a plurality of data packets,
- at least one target apparatus comprising one or more target devices, wherein the target apparatus in communication with the distributed computing network and configured for receiving the data set via a secure transmission path established between the source apparatus and the target apparatus, and
- a plurality of network nodes disposed along the secure transmission path;
- a plurality of logical switches stored in a memory associated with at least one of the network nodes, executable by one or more processing devices associated with at least one of the network nodes;
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- a controller stored in the memory associated with at least one of the network nodes, executable by one or more of the processing devices and configured to:
- control at least one of (i) timing for delivery of the data packets to the target apparatus, and (ii) routing of the data packets by activating and deactivating the logical switches,
- determine an attempt to wrongfully access or intercept the data packets during transmission of the data set via the secure transmission path and, in response to determining the attempt to wrongfully access or intercept the data packets, (i) activate one or more of the logical switches to block further transmission of the data packets to one or more target devices of the target apparatus, and (ii) re-route the data packets to an alternate target apparatus by creating a second secure transmission path for transmitting the data packets to the alternate target apparatus and re-tagging the data packets with a second destination address associated with the alternate target apparatus.
A computer-implemented method for intelligent delivery of data packets within a secure transmission path, the method executed by one or more computing processing device and comprising:
- tagging data packets with a destination address associated with one or more of the target devices and a data packet type;
- during transmission of the data packets from a source apparatus to the one or more target devices:
- scanning the data packets to identify the destination address and the data packet type;
- determining availability of the one or more target devices associated with the identified destination address for processing data of the identified data packet type;
- in response to determining that the one or more target devices are currently not available for processing data of the identified data packet type, activating one or more logical switches disposed along the secure transmission path to block transmission of data packets of the identified data packet type;
- in response to determining that at least one of the one or more target devices are currently available for processing the data, deactivating the one or more of the logical switches to allow transmission of the data packets to the at least one of the one or more target devices;
- determining an attempt to wrongfully access or intercept the data packets;
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- in response to determining the attempt to wrongfully access or intercept the data packets, (i) activating one or more of the logical switches to block further transmission of the data packets to one or more target devices of the target apparatus, and (ii) re-routing the data packets to an alternate target apparatus by creating a second secure transmission path for transmitting the data packets to the alternate target apparatus and re-tagging the data packets with a second destination address associated with the alternate target apparatus.
A computer-implemented method for intelligent delivery of data packets within a secure transmission path, the method executed by one or more computing processing device and comprising:
- providing a plurality of logical switches within each of a plurality of security zones disposed within the secure transmission path;
- determining an attempt to wrongfully access or intercept the data packets during transmission if the data packets via the secure transmission path;
- in response to determining the attempt to wrongfully access or intercept the data packets, activating at least two of the logical switches within at least one of the security zones to isolate a plurality of data packets within the at least one of the security zones and block further transmission of the data packets to one or more target devices;
- conducting one or more security processes on the isolated data packets prior to re-routing the data packets to one or more alternate target devices;
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- re-routing the data packets to one or more alternate target devices by creating a second secure transmission path for transmitting the data packets to the alternate target apparatus and re-tagging the data packets with a second destination address associated with the alternate target apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.