US Patent 7873656 Apparatus and methods to reduce proxy overhead in a gateway

Patent 7873656 was granted and assigned to Trend Micro on January, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Current Assignee

Trend Micro

Patent Jurisdiction

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

7873656

Patent Inventor Names

Viswa Soubramanien0

Date of Patent

January 18, 2011

Patent Application Number

11861203

Date Filed

September 25, 2007

Patent Primary Examiner

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Greta L. Robinson

Patent abstract

An arrangement within a gateway for evaluating a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) request. The gateway is configured to be organized into at least a kernel space and an application space during operation. The one or more drivers are configured to reside within the kernel space of the gateway and configured to perform at least intercepting the URL request and querying at least an information service. The querying is also configured to obtain information attributed to a URL that is associated with said URL request.