DPI Consortium Provides Deep Packet Inspection Training Program to USPTO
December 07 2023 - 10:04AM
Business Wire
DPI Consortium provides USPTO training to
Advance Understanding of Foundational Internet Technology
The DPI Consortium, an independent, non-profit organization
committed to providing educational resources regarding the history
of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology and development,
recently conducted a technical training for the United States
Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) as part of the USPTO’s Patent
Examiner Technical Training Program (PETTP). The training featured
the DPI Consortium’s Advisory Board, a panel of leading
technologists, inventors, and founders who have led the development
of DPI technology since its inception and was part of the DPI
Consortium’s ongoing work to advance the field of DPI technology by
making historical research and development resources available to
all.
The speakers featured in the training included:
- Vinton G. Cerf: Co-designer the TCP/IP protocols and the
architecture of the Internet and currently Chief Internet
Evangelist at Google.
- Len Shustek: co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of the board of
trustees of the Computer History Museum, and previously the
co-founder of Network General.
- Gerald Combs: original developer of the Wireshark open-source
project, the world’s premier network protocol analyzer and
currently Director of Open Source Projects at Sysdig.
- Paul Barrett: President of the DPI Consortium, CTO for
NETSCOUT’s Enterprise and Federal businesses.
The DPI Consortium maintains a freely available prior art
database including links to four decades' worth of product data
sheets, articles, patents, and web pages documenting the
development of DPI technology. Many of these resources were
developed in the open-source technology community and are therefore
not included in patent archives. Other resources have been saved
via the Internet Archive from private companies that have been
acquired, merged, or discontinued since their materials were
published. The fully searchable database can be accessed via the
DPI Consortium’s website and is, in addition to a resource for
future patent applicants, the most complete archive of the
development of DPI, a foundational technology of the digital
era.
“Deep packet inspection is used to assure the health and
security of not just networks, but also the applications and
services that are delivered over those networks. For example, DPI
is an essential component in protecting national critical
infrastructure such as communications networks, energy, healthcare
and financial systems, and critical government defense networks,”
says Paul Barrett, President of the DPI Consortium, CTO for
NETSCOUT’s Enterprise and Federal businesses.
The DPI Consortium encourages anyone with materials relating to
the history and development of DPI technology to submit those
materials to their database as a resource for future technologists.
Additional training in collaboration with the USPTO is
forthcoming.
About the DPI Consortium
As an independent, non-profit, 501(c)(6) tax-exempt membership
organization, the DPI Consortium’s mission is to provide a
clearinghouse for publicly available educational resources related
to the history of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology to
improve patent quality, deter frivolous patent assertion entity
claims, and support the patent challenges of its members. Learn
more at https://dpiconsortium.org/.
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