Multi-network virus immunization with separate physical path
AssigneeThe Invention Science Fund I, LLC
InventorsEdward K. Y. Jung, Royce A. Levien, Robert W. Lord, Mark A. Malamud, John D. Rinaldo, Jr., Lowell L. Wood, Jr.
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Abstract
An apparatus, device, methods, computer program product, and system are described that determine a virus associated with a communications network, and distribute an anti-viral agent onto the communications network using a bypass network, the bypass network configured to provide transmission of the anti-viral agent with at least one of a higher transmission speed, a higher transmission reliability, a higher transmission security, and/or a physically-separate transmission path, relative to transmission of the virus on the communications network.
Claims31
A method at least partially implemented using a processing device, comprising:
- determining a virus associated with a communications network;
- and
- distributing an anti-viral agent onto the communications network using a bypass network,
- The bypass network configured to provide transmission of the anti-viral agent with at least one physically-separate transmission path, relative to transmission of the virus on the communications network, wherein the distributing comprises providing the anti-viral agent to the communications network based on a determination of a potential path of the virus, the determination based on a topological analysis of the communications network.
A computer program product comprising:
- A non-transitory computer-readable medium bearing at least one of
- (a) one or more instructions for determining a virus associated with a communications network, and
- (b) one or more instructions for distributing a anti-viral agent onto the communications network using a bypass network, the bypass network configured to provide transmission of the anti-viral agent with at least one physically-separate transmission path, relative to transmission of the virus on the communications network, wherein the distributing the anti-viral agent onto the communications network is based on a determination of a potential path of the virus, wherein the determination includes a statistical analysis of the determination.
A system comprising:
- a computer device, and
- Instructions that when executed on the computing device cause the computing device to
- (a) determine a virus associated with a communications network, and
- (b) distribute an anti-viral agent onto the communications network using a bypass network, the bypass network configured to provide transmission of the anti-viral agent with at least one physically-separate transmission path, relative to transmission of the virus on the communications network, wherein the distributing the anti-viral agent onto the communications network is based on a determination of a potential path of the virus, wherein the determination includes a statistical analysis of the determination.
A device comprising:
- a multi-network virus immunization system, the multi-network virus immunization system comprising
- (a) a network monitor operable to determine a virus associated with a communications network, and
- (b) a response generator operable to:
- select an anti-viral agent from more than one possible anti-viral agents, the selection based upon one or more response rules;
- and
- distribute the anti-viral agent onto the communications network using a bypass network, the bypass network configured to:
- provide transmission of the anti-viral agent with at least one physically-separate transmission path, relative to transmission of the virus on the communications network, and
- provide a more secure point-to-point transmission of the anti-viral agent between a first network device and a second network device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.