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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2019
Extreme Networks, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Xu Zou, San Jose, CA (US);
Kenshin Sakura, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mingliang Li, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Extreme Networks, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a system comprising: an authentication datastore; a device presence engine; a traffic monitor engine; an authentication presence monitor engine; an authentication server selection engine; and a traffic routing engine. In operation: the device presence engine is configured to detect presence of a user device on a trusted network; the traffic monitor engine is configured to monitor, in response to the detection, traffic on the trusted network from the device; the authentication presence monitor engine is configured to evaluate onboarding characteristics of the user device in response to the monitoring; the authentication server selection engine is configured to select one of a plurality of authentication servers to authenticate the user device to the trusted network, the selecting based on the onboarding characteristics; and the traffic routing engine is configured to route traffic from the user device to the selected authentication server.