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US 2006/0218280 A1Published application
System and method of firewall design utilizing decision diagrams
AssigneeBoard of Regents, The University of Texas System
InventorsMohamed Gouda, Xiang-Yang Liu
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Abstract
A system, method and computer-usable medium for designing a firewall to protect a data processing system. A user first specifies a firewall decision diagram. The firewall decision diagram is then reduced and marked. Finally, a firewall is generated from the marked firewall decision diagram.
Claims18
A method of designing a firewall to isolate a data processing system, said method comprising:
- specifying a plurality of requirements for a firewall as a firewall decision diagram;
- reducing said firewall decision diagram;
- and
- generating said firewall from said firewall decision diagram.
1 more element
A system comprising:
- a processor;
- an interconnect coupled to said processor;
- and
- a computer-usable medium embodying computer program code, said computer-usable medium coupled to said interconnect, said computer program code comprising instructions executable by said processor and configured for:
- specifying a plurality of requirements for a firewall as a firewall decision diagram;
- reducing said firewall decision diagram;
- and
- generating said firewall from said firewall decision diagram.
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A computer-usable medium embodying computer program code, said computer program code comprising computer executable instructions configured for:
- specifying a plurality of requirements for a firewall as a firewall decision diagram;
- reducing said firewall decision diagram;
- and
- generating said firewall from said firewall decision diagram.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.