Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Firewall configured with dynamic membership sets representing machine attributes
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Application No.: US15455510Application Date: 2017-03-10
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Publication No.: US10476843B2Publication Date: 2019-11-12
- Inventor: Debashis Basak , Rohit Toshniwal , Allwyn Sequeira
- Applicant: VMware, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Assignee: VMware, Inc.
- Current Assignee: VMware, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06

Abstract:
A method is provided to control the flow of packets within a system that includes one or more computer networks comprising: policy rules are provided that set forth attribute dependent conditions for communications among machines on the one or more networks; machine attributes and corresponding machine identifiers are obtained for respective machines on the networks; and policy rules are transformed to firewall rules that include machine identifiers of machines having attributes from among the obtained machine attributes that satisfy the attribute dependent policy rules.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170187679A1 FIREWALL CONFIGURED WITH DYNAMIC MEMBERSHIP SETS REPRESENTING MACHINE ATTRIBUTES Public/Granted day:2017-06-29
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