Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Full of state; stately.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Full of state; stately.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective computing That supports different states, reacting to the same input differently depending on the current state.
  • adjective obsolete Full of state; stately.

Etymologies

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state +‎ -ful. In the computing sense it is intended as an opposite for stateless.

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Examples

  • CheckPoint is a pioneer in stateful inspection firewalls and, like Avaya and unified communications, is focused solely on the security business with products dedicated to firewalling, VPNs, unified threat management and intrusion prevention.

    Cisco's top 10 rivals Jim Duffy 2010

  • "We have a technology that we refer to as stateful assessment technology," Ewe said.

    unknown title 2009

  • The software, running on a central server, auto-discovers machine resources, manages existing live virtual machines, and can capture and store "stateful" virtual machines,

    Latest from Computerworld 2010

  • J2D - a 'stateful' renderer with optimizations for update rate, good for interactive client-side displays.

    Dashboard RSS Feed 2010

  • Cyberoam UTM delivers the complete range of security features such as stateful inspection firewall, VPN, gateway anti-virus, gateway anti-malware, gateway anti-spam, intrusion prevention system, content filtering in addition to bandwidth management and multiple link management over a single platform.

    Press Releases 2010

  • Cyberoam UTM delivers the complete range of security features such as stateful inspection firewall, VPN, gateway anti-virus, gateway anti-malware, gateway anti-spam, intrusion prevention system, content filtering in addition to bandwidth management and multiple link management over a single platform.

    Press Releases Press Guy 2010

  • It also features high-availability features such as stateful fault repair and in-service software upgrades, Arista says.

    Latest from Computerworld 2009

  • Cyberoam UTM delivers the complete range of security features such as stateful inspection firewall, VPN, gateway anti-virus, gateway anti-malware, gateway anti-spam, intrusion prevention system, content filtering in addition to bandwidth management and multiple link management over a single platform.

    Press Release 2009

  • Cyberoam UTM delivers the complete range of security features such as stateful inspection firewall, VPN, gateway anti-virus, gateway anti-malware, gateway anti-spam, intrusion prevention system, content filtering in addition to bandwidth management and multiple link management over a single platform.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2009

  • Cyberoam delivers the complete range of security features such as stateful inspection firewall, VPN, gateway anti-virus and anti-spyware, gateway anti-spam, intrusion prevention system, content filtering in addition to bandwidth management and multiple link management over a single platform.

    unknown title 2009

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  • In computer science, especially networking, "stateful' is opposed to "stateless", and means that something is remembered from one interaction to the next. For example, the HTTP protocol that the web is built on is fundamentally stateless, but browser cookies are one way to add state to it, so that when you go back to a web site it remembers who you are.

    July 26, 2009