US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on April 1 for "Transparent inline content inspection and modification in a TCP session" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,404, issued on April 1, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Transparent inline content inspection and modification in a TCP session" was invented by Gregory Lyle Galloway (Cumming, Ga.), Paul Coccoli (Marietta, Ga.), David Allen Dennerline (Sandy Springs, Ga.) and Steven Ashley Mazur (Johns Creek, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network appliance is configured to provide inline traffic inspection for all flow through the device, to selectively intercept based on traffic content or policy, and to modify intercepted traffic content, all without connection termination and re-origination. Content m...