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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2002
Vinodh Kumar Ravindranath, Bangalore, IN;
Amit S. Phadnis, Bangalore, IN;
Vinodh Kumar Ravindranath, Bangalore, IN;
Amit S. Phadnis, Bangalore, IN;
Cisco Technology, Inc, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A service selection gateway (SSG) which enables a service provider to conveniently provide access of the same services to a group of hosts. The service provider may specify the specific services each group of hosts is permitted to access, and the SSG forwards packets from the hosts only to the corresponding specified services. In an embodiment implemented substantially in the form of software, the access information (specifying the server addresses which can be accessed from each group of hosts) is stored in the form of data structures in which the same copy of access information is shared by many (all) hosts in the corresponding group.