Dell Products Inc.

Brian Eugene Manser

Harpreet S Narula

Alok Pant

Dileep Kumar Soma

A security level of data generated by an application may be communicated from the application layer to the network layer and that security level used to determine of several available network connects for transmitting the data. A method of communicating may include associating the plurality of network connections with security levels to form associations, the associations indicating security levels of data that may be transmitted over each of the plurality of network connections; receiving, at the network layer, data for transmission; determining, at the network layer, a security level for the data; determining, at the network layer, at least one network connection of a plurality of network connections to transmit the data based, at least in part, on the security level; and transmitting the data packet over the at least one network connection.

Managing security of network communications in an information handling system

Embodiments allow for multiple instances of a state machine to connect with multiple clients. Additionally, a plurality of connection states, while maintaining a connection with a single physical client device, may support multiple modes. For example, a wireless peripheral device determines whether it is paired with a client device and connects if it is, by selecting a saved long term bonding key, based on a user selected device mode. When a scan timeout expires, the device switches to another saved bonding key. When an overall connection timeout expires, these steps repeat. If the device is not already paired, it pairs with a client by setting long term paring key generation key(s), bonding with the client using the generation key(s) to generate a paring key, distributing the pairing key to the client, and saving the pairing key, as a bonding key, based on user selected device mode.

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Brian Eugene Manser