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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:
Feb. 23, 2021
Filed:
May. 04, 2018
Applicant:
Vce Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Inventors:
Patrick Barry, Banteer, IE;
Ryan Andersen, Belmont, MA (US);
Nitin John, Sudbury, MA (US);
Seamus Kerrigan, Cork, IE;
Assignee:
VCE IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 16/903 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0893 (2013.01); G06F 16/903 (2019.01); H04L 41/085 (2013.01); H04L 41/0823 (2013.01); H04L 63/16 (2013.01);
Abstract
A layer-based method and system for defining and enforcing policies in an information technology (IT) environment. Specifically, the disclosed method and system propose and implement a layer-based infrastructure management model, which partitions the scope and problem set of application and operational policy definition and/or enforcement into a hierarchy of abstraction layers.