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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2018
Nortonlifelock Inc., Tempe, AZ (US);
Susanta K Nanda, San Jose, CA (US);
Yuqiong Sun, Mountain View, CA (US);
NortonLifeLock Inc., Tempe, AZ (US);
Abstract
A method to manage Internet of Things (IoT) devices is described. In one embodiment, the method includes detecting a presence of a first IoT device in a network associated with the computing device, managing access to the first IoT device based at least in part on authentication information associated with the first IoT device, identifying one or more updates associated with the first IoT device, and applying at least one update to the first IoT device based at least in part on identifying the one or more updates. In one embodiment, the method further includes analyzing a packet stream to determine one or more identifiers associated with the first IoT device, and identifying the first IoT device based at least in part on the one or more determined identifiers.