Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Vincent Giles

Brian Jemes

Samir Bouraoui

According to one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method of authorizing a computing device to access a network, comprising receiving authentication data including a user identifier from the computing device, determining whether approval to verify the authentication data is given, and where it is so determined, authorizing the device to access the network upon verification of the authentication data.

Method and apparatus for accessing a network

A secured network is disclosed configured to carry data, comprising a plurality of network bubbles and a plurality of network control points, wherein each network bubble comprises one or more bubble partitions and each bubble partition comprises at least one networked device configured to transmit and receive data, and all of the network devices corresponding to at least one of the plurality of network bubbles have a common network security policy. At least one network control point, such as a router, is provided with a marker module arranged to mark outgoing packets with a label corresponding to the network bubble from which the packets originate that can be used to enforce the network security policy of the at least one network bubble.

Enforcing network security policies with packet labels

A method and apparatus is disclosed for distributing routing information between nodes in networks in which routing parameters from subnets are carried in the internal gateway protocol for use in routing decisions in an external gateway protocol.

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