MUMBAI, India, May 29 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202621042898 A) filed by Sage University, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, on April 3, for 'apparatus and method for network traffic forensic analysis.'
Inventor(s) include Dr. Prashant Jain; Ms. Sakshi Agrawal; Dr. Sachin Patel; Prof. Priya Sen; Jay Yadav; and Vishal Kumar.
The application for the patent was published on May 29, under issue no. 22/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure relates to network traffic forensic analysis. The apparatus (100) passively captures bidirectional network traffic using an optical network tap (102). A field-programmable gate array (104) inspects packet payloads against threat signatures at wire speed, generating match indication signals for flagged packets. A GPS (Global Positioning System)-synchronized timestamping device (110) assigns precise GPS-synchronized timestamps to matched packets, while a hardware security device (112) generates cryptographic signatures over packets and timestamps as an integrated data structure, preventing alteration of packet-timestamp associations. A hardware processor (106) coordinates these components, transmitting only flagged packets to the hardware security device (112) for real-time cryptographic signing. The resulting authenticated forensic evidence is written to a write-once storage (108), preventing subsequent modification. Selective processing of only matched packets enables the apparatus (100) to maintain wire-speed inspection while simultaneously producing cryptographically authenticated, tamper-evident forensic records suitable for evidentiary purposes."
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