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Tuesday, 03/09/2010 8:59:30 AM

Tuesday, March 09, 2010 8:59:30 AM

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United States Patent 7,676,837
Kilgore March 9, 2010

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Firewall protection for wireless users


Abstract
In a computer telecommunications network, firewalls protect a machine or network from undesired message transmissions. In the case of a firewall employed on a user side of the wireless link, a message rejected by the firewall has already consumed the wireless resources required to transmit. A system for protecting a mobile wireless user via a firewall employed at the wired line, or ISP side, of the wireless link in a wireless network allows a specific user profile to be provided for each user that is indicative of a desired firewall configuration corresponding to the mobile user. A firewall configuration is established at a firewall application in a wireless transceiver corresponding to the current location of the mobile user, and the same firewall configuration is established, via a wireless handoff, at a second wireless transceiver when the user is located in the area corresponding to the second wireless transceiver, thereby protecting a plurality of wireless users prior to wasteful wireless transmission of undesired messages.


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Inventors: Kilgore; Brian (Melbourne, FL)
Assignee: IPR Licensing, Inc. (Wilmington, DE)

Appl. No.: 11/498,588
Filed: August 3, 2006

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Related U.S. Patent Documents

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Application Number Filing Date Patent Number Issue Date
09847865 May., 2001 7089586


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Current U.S. Class: 726/13 ; 726/11; 726/3
Current International Class: G06F 17/00 (20060101); G06F 17/30 (20060101)
Field of Search: 726/13,11,3


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