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- Patent Title: Firewall system protecting a community of appliances, appliance participating in the system and method of updating the firewall rules within the system
- Patent Title (中): 保护电器社区的防火墙系统,参与系统的设备以及系统内更新防火墙规则的方法
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Application No.: US11174830Application Date: 2005-07-05
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Publication No.: US07676836B2Publication Date: 2010-03-09
- Inventor: Nicolas Prigent , Olivier Heen , Christophe Bidan , Olivier Courtay , Jean-Pierre Andreaux
- Applicant: Nicolas Prigent , Olivier Heen , Christophe Bidan , Olivier Courtay , Jean-Pierre Andreaux
- Applicant Address: FR Boulogne-Billancourt
- Assignee: Thomson Licensing
- Current Assignee: Thomson Licensing
- Current Assignee Address: FR Boulogne-Billancourt
- Agent Robert D. Shedd; Joseph J. Opalach; Jerome G. Schaefer
- Priority: FR0451496 20040709
- Main IPC: G06F17/00
- IPC: G06F17/00

Abstract:
The invention relates to the protection by firewall of a domestic community of interconnectable appliances.The invention allows distributed and totally decentralized management of the firewall policy, implemented at the level of each appliance, which is consistent and adapts dynamically to the changes occurring within the domestic network. We shall speak of ubiquitous firewalls.
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