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Systems and methods for strong information about transmission control protocol connections

  • US 10,432,720 B1
  • Filed: 06/25/2014
  • Issued: 10/01/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method for storing information about transmission control protocol connections, at least a portion of the method being performed by a computing device comprising at least one processor, the method comprising:

  • configuring a server with a transmission control protocol stack that is an alternative to a default transmission control protocol stack of an operating system of the server, wherein the default transmission control protocol stack is programmed to store a default set of connection information about transmission control protocol connections established through the default transmission control protocol stack;

    receiving, at the server, a request to establish a transmission control protocol connection with the server;

    routing the request through the alternative transmission control protocol stack instead of the default transmission control protocol stack; and

    storing, at the server via the alternative transmission control protocol stack, connection information used by the transmission control protocol to maintain the transmission control protocol connection, wherein;

    the connection information includes an Internet protocol address of a client that sent the request, a port number of the client that sent the request, and a transmission control protocol sequence number of the client that sent the request; and

    the connection information excludes header information about the request such that the connection information has a smaller memory footprint than the default set of connection information.

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