FIREWALL SYSTEM PROTECTING A COMMUNITY OF APPLIANCES, APPLIANCE PARTICIPATING IN THE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF UPDATING THE FIREWALL RULES WITHIN THE SYSTEM

摘要

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.