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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2021
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Roberto Muccifora, Ropraz, CH;
Domenico Ficara, Essertines-sur-Yverdon, CH;
Amine Choukir, Lausanne, CH;
Ugo Mario Campiglio, Morges, CH;
Shree Murthy, San Jose, CA (US);
Stephen M. Orr, Wallkill, NY (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Group identity assignment and policy enforcement may be provided. A User Defined Network Identifier (UDN ID) defining a group of client devices may be received. Next, a client identifier (ID) associated with a source client device that is associated with the group of client devices may be received. The UDN ID and the client ID may be encoded in an Extended Local Identifier (ELI) Media Access Control (MAC) address associated with the source client device. A source MAC address of a packet received from the source client device may then be substituted with the ELI MAC address. Then the packet may be forwarded.