NETWORK ATTACHED DEVICE WITH DEDICATED FIREWALL SECURITY

• US 20130061294A1
• Filed: 10/31/2012
• Published: 03/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/01/1998
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: FireNet Technologies, LLC (IP Investments Group LLC)
• Original Assignee: Robust Networks LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Kenworthy, Stacy
• Granted Patent: US 8,892,600 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/4
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0209 Architectural arrangements, e.g. perimeter networks or demilitarized zones
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0218 Distributed architectures, e.g. distributed firewalls
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0281 Proxies
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99939 Privileged access

Abstract

Dedicated firewall security for a network attached device (NAD) is provided by a firewall management system integrated directly into the NAD or into a NAD server. A local area network arrangement includes a network client and the NAD and the firewall management system includes computer readable medium having computer-executable instructions that perform the steps of receiving a request for network access to the NAD from the network client, determining whether the request for network access to the NAD is authorised, and only if the request for network access is authorized, providing the network client with network access to the NAD.

Claims

1. A local area network arrangement comprising a network client and a network attached device (NAD), the arrangement further comprising a NAD server disposed in electronic communication between the network client and the NAD and at which every request for network access to the NAD is received, the NAD server including computer readable medium having computer-executable instructions that perform the steps of:

(a) receiving a request for network access to the NAD from the network client;

(b) determining whether the request for network access to the NAD is authorized; and

(c) only if the request for network access is authorized, providing the network client with network access to the NAD.

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