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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2009

Filed:

Sep. 16, 2003
Applicant:

Natalie Timms, Seattle, WA (US);

Inventor:

Natalie Timms, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Approaches for applying service polices to encrypted packets are disclosed. One approach comprises examining an encrypted packet, determining whether an identifier associated with a service is present in an encrypted packet, and if it is determined that the identifier is present in the encrypted packet, applying the service to the encrypted packet. In an embodiment, the identifier is the Internet Key Exchange (IKE) ID of the encrypted packet.


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