Security Analyzer Synchronization via Unified Software Application
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing security analysis methods for network devices face inefficiencies in synchronizing test and response messages, particularly when multiple messages are sent simultaneously, leading to increased complexity and cost.
Innovation Solution
A single software application acts as both the sender and recipient of messages over a network channel, allowing for reduced synchronization requirements and accelerated security analysis by generating test messages before receiving response messages.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If multiple devices send and receive messages simultaneously during security analysis, then comprehensive testing can be performed, but synchronization complexity and system cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the functions of multiple separate devices (message sender, message receiver, and analyzer) into a single software application. This single application can simultaneously send test messages through the DUA and receive response messages, eliminating the need for complex synchronization between multiple devices while maintaining comprehensive testing capability
Solution Approach 2:
The security analysis application performs multiple functions within a single system: it acts as both the test message sender and the response message receiver, while also analyzing the messages. This multi-functional approach reduces system complexity and eliminates synchronization requirements between separate devices
2Device complexity
If a single software application performs both sending and receiving functions, then synchronization complexity is reduced, but the application must handle multiple functions simultaneously
Solution Approach 1:
The patent designs a universal security analysis application that can perform multiple functions: sending test messages, receiving response messages, and analyzing the message pairs. This single application is adapted to handle diverse security analysis tasks without requiring additional synchronization infrastructure
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AI summary
A security analyzer includes a single software application that both sends test messages to a device under analysis (DUA) and receives response messages generated by the DUA in response to the test messages. In this way, synchronization of which response messages correspond to which test messages can be reduced or avoided. The software application further determines whether the DUA operated correctly by analyzing the received response messages.