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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2021
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Vivek Santuka, Morrisville, NC (US);
Yeneneh Elfaged Gobena, Cary, NC (US);
Hazim Hashim Dahir, Wake Forest, NC (US);
Dhiren Tailor, Hertfordshire, GB;
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A server may receive, from a virtual private network (VPN) client of a client device, a message which indicates a request for a policy rule for communications with a network-based application (e.g. provided via a data center or cloud computing services). The server may obtain source attributes of the client device and a user thereof based on source identifiers, and destination attributes of the application based on a destination identifier, and select a policy rule associated with the attributes (e.g. indicative of security, risk, cost, load, and/or business function). The server may send a message which indicates a response and includes the policy rule for application at the VPN client. The policy rule may indicate a policy action for selecting a path, of a plurality of paths, identified by a path identifier, and specify conditions such as a location and/or a date, day, and/or time of the client device.