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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2004
John L Cook, Iii, Southborough, MA (US);
Clark W. Lefavour, Southborough, MA (US);
Henry L. Steinberg, Westborough, MA (US);
Malini K. Bhandaru, Subdury, MA (US);
Rou Z. Lam, Nashua, NH (US);
John L Cook, III, Southborough, MA (US);
Clark W. Lefavour, Southborough, MA (US);
Henry L. Steinberg, Westborough, MA (US);
Malini K. Bhandaru, Subdury, MA (US);
Rou Z. Lam, Nashua, NH (US);
ComBrio, Inc., Southborough, MA (US);
Abstract
Creating directed circuits including encoding of policy and state information associated with directed circuits that may be established between two network entities on separate protected networks. The policies are maintained and implemented according to security methods that initially belong to network apparatus on either of the two protected networks; however the security methods may be relinquished to trusted third parties.