Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Scope discovery and policy generation in an enterprise network
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Application No.: US17063864Application Date: 2020-10-06
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Publication No.: US11627166B2Publication Date: 2023-04-11
- Inventor: Weifei Zeng , Sai Ankith Averineni , Omid Madani , Paul Mach , Yash Vipul Doshi , Sasidhar Evuru , Sayeed Mohammed Tasnim , Sameer Salim Mahomed Ali Ladiwala , Chakradhar Reddy Vangeti , Thanh Nhan Nguyen , Varun Malhotra , Shashidhar Gandham , Navindra Yadav , Thanh Trung Ngo , Maxwell Aaron Mechanic
- Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Polsinelli
- Main IPC: H04L9/40
- IPC: H04L9/40 ; H04L41/0893 ; H04L41/14 ; H04L47/2483

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media for discovering policy scopes within an enterprise network and managing network policies for discovered policy scopes. In one aspect, a method includes identifying one or more communities of devices in an enterprise network; defining, from the one or more communities of devices, policy scopes in the enterprise network; generating a hierarchical representation of the policy scopes; identifying, based on the hierarchical representation of the policy scopes, one or more policies governing traffic flow between devices associated with each of the policy scopes; and managing application of the one or more policies at the devices.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220109701A1 SCOPE DISCOVERY AND POLICY GENERATION IN AN ENTERPRISE NETWORK Public/Granted day:2022-04-07
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