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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2019
Xage Security, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Susanto Junaidi Irwan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Roman M. Arutyunov, San Jose, CA (US);
Ganesh B. Jampani, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dhananjayan Santhanakrishnan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Xage Security, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method comprises posting, by a broker computing device, identity awareness data for a plurality of client computing devices to a distributed data repository (DDP); receiving, by a networking hardware device, the identity awareness data from the DDP; using, by the networking hardware device, the identity awareness data from the DDP to authenticate a client computing device requesting access to at least one Internet of Things (IoT) computing device; in response to authenticating the client computing device, creating, by the networking hardware device, a session for the client computing device to communicate with the at least one IoT computing device, wherein creating a session comprises: opening a port on the networking hardware device, wherein communication between the client computing device and the at least one IoT computing device is through the port; posting information relating to the session as authentication session information to the DDP.