From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755527Ab0C2A4T (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:56:19 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f223.google.com ([209.85.220.223]:48116 "EHLO mail-fx0-f223.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755466Ab0C2A4S (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:56:18 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=sTJ3mSdseMsj/UUgCwCgXyovmP1Lqk24wbiA0gamIJYGot4Q/KZW8H5S2VLJosEFUJ +FV+xarS10tOkBNtqkLmC4MAASgaOp/pq5MAQfXRcBWd8gk1Mx5fjYm5YIExwgCRAbJq 8qXzufY7kS8x5QUnCKZIp5Q10M03uI2HkkmFs= Message-ID: <4BAFFAAC.9030905@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 02:56:12 +0200 From: Jan III Sobieski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; pl; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeffrey Merkey CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Another Linux Patent Issued [7,684,347 method and apparatus for network packet capture distributed storage system] References: <69a32f311003281638g216d6d31n15bb837c5353d773@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <69a32f311003281638g216d6d31n15bb837c5353d773@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org W dniu 2010-03-29 01:38, Jeffrey Merkey pisze: > http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=merkey.INNM.&OS=IN/merkey&RS=IN/merkey > > Been busy. Hope everyone is well. > > Jeff > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ "This is invention comprises a method and apparatus for Infinite Network Packet Capture System (INPCS). The INPCS is a high performance data capture recorder capable of capturing and archiving all network traffic present on a single network or multiple networks. This device can be attached to Ethernet networks via copper or SX fiber via either a SPAN port (101) router configuration or via an optical splitter (102). By this method, multiple sources or network traffic including gigabit Ethernet switches (102) may provide parallelized data feeds to the capture appliance (104), effectively increasing collective data capture capacity. Multiple captured streams are merged into a consolidated time indexed capture stream to support asymmetrically routed network traffic as well as other merged streams for external consumption. " So you patented network sniffer? LOL. You may also want to "invent" a layer between user program and hardware aka operating system ;) -- Jan III Sobieski