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Apple Inc.

Emc Corporation

Steven Adams Flewallen

Lloyd Leon Burch

David Kent Beus

David Nephi Johnson

Thiruvarangam Viswanathan Sriram

Benjamin Clark Fjeldsted

In a computing system environment, an arrangement of computing devices includes multiple layers behind a content flow director, such as an L4 switch in a web service. In a computing device of an outermost layer directly communicating with the content flow director, a communications port is conditionally enabled upon policy being met or exceeded in the computing system environment behind the content flow director. If unmet, the communications port is disabled, if already enabled, or prevented from becoming enabled, if not otherwise already enabled. In this manner, policy establishes port enablement. In certain aspects, policy determinations include determining a time of response, a quality of service check or a pass/fail condition of the one of the computing devices. Policy is also easily implemented as remote or local computer executable instructions on the computing devices. Representative computing devices include switches, such as L4 switches, routers, servers, repeaters, adapters or the like.

Control of communication ports of computing devices using policy-based decisions

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Pleasant Grove, UT, United States of America

Steven Adams Flewallen