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METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY APPLYING ACCESS CONTROL POLICIES BASED ON DEVICE TYPES OF NETWORKED COMPUTING DEVICES

  • US 20140068030A1
  • Filed: 08/27/2013
  • Published: 03/06/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for managing access control policies, comprising:

  • a management server, residing on server hardware communicatively coupled to a plurality of network access devices over a wide area network (WAN), the management server including;

    a Web interface to allow an administrator to login and configure access control policies based on device types of network client devices,an access control policy (ACP) database to store ACPs received from the Web interface,an access control rule (ACR) database to store ACRs mapping device types to one or more ACPs stored in the ACP database, anda first access control module (ACM) to transmit over the Internet the ACPs and the ACRs to the plurality of network access devices to allow the network access devices to apply the ACPs based on the ACRs of their respective network client devices, to receive update information of a first network client device from a first of the network access devices, and to broadcast the update information to a remainder of the network access devices; and

    the plurality of network access devices, each including;

    a second access control module to download the ACRs and the ACPs from the management server over the Internet, anda device type detector, in response to a request from a network client device to enter a network, to detect a device type of the network client device using one or more device type detection methods, wherein the second access control module is to determine an ACP identifier based on an ACR of the network client device and to apply an ACP selected from the ACPs based on the ACP identifier, and wherein the second access control module is to report at least the selected ACP to the management server to allow the management server to distribute the same to other network access devices.

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