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Network device for monitoring and modifying network traffic between an end user and a content provider

  • US 7,941,562 B2
  • Filed: 03/30/2007
  • Issued: 05/10/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2006
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A network device for monitoring data traffic between a client device and a server device, the network device comprising:

  • a network interface having a bypass switch, the interface being coupled to a network and configured to intercept or bypass data packets transmitted between a user device and a web server;

    an activity monitor configured to monitor a predetermined signal and causing the network interface to bypass data packets;

    a dispatcher implemented in a processing unit, coupled to the network interface, examining the intercepted data packets to identify any advertising opportunity in the intercepted data packets; and

    an analysis processor having a storage device for storing targeted commercial information and a processing unit configured to modify the intercepted data packets being identified by the dispatcher as having an advertisement opportunity to include the targeted commercial information in one or more of the intercepted data packets without altering head portions thereof.

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