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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2020
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Weifei Zeng, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sai Ankith Averineni, Fremont, CA (US);
Omid Madani, San Carlos, CA (US);
Paul Mach, Oakland, CA (US);
Yash Vipul Doshi, Union City, CA (US);
Sasidhar Evuru, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sayeed Mohammed Tasnim, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sameer Salim Mahomed Ali Ladiwala, Mountain View, CA (US);
Chakradhar Reddy Vangeti, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Thanh Nhan Nguyen, Mountain View, CA (US);
Varun Malhotra, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Shashidhar Gandham, Fremont, CA (US);
Navindra Yadav, Cupertino, CA (US);
Thanh Trung Ngo, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Maxwell Aaron Mechanic, Portland, OR (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media for discovering policy scopes within an enterprise network and managing network policies for discovered policy scopes. In one aspect, a method includes identifying one or more communities of devices in an enterprise network; defining, from the one or more communities of devices, policy scopes in the enterprise network; generating a hierarchical representation of the policy scopes; identifying, based on the hierarchical representation of the policy scopes, one or more policies governing traffic flow between devices associated with each of the policy scopes; and managing application of the one or more policies at the devices.