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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2016
Applicant:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Steven Stites, Austin, TX (US);
Prashanth Patil, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04W 12/06 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/08 (2013.01); H04L 63/0884 (2013.01); H04L 63/162 (2013.01); H04L 63/164 (2013.01); H04L 67/141 (2013.01); H04L 69/22 (2013.01); H04W 12/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a system, method, and computer program product are disclosed for authenticating a packet received from a client node, storing the results of the authentication in a cache memory of a service classifier node, and including the results of the authentication in a network service header of a packet before forwarding the packet to downstream service nodes. In one embodiment, the initial authentication is performed in conjunction with an authentication node.