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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2006
Sandeep Kumar, Cupertino, CA (US);
Rajesh Raman, San Jose, CA (US);
Vinod Dashora, Fremont, CA (US);
Sandeep Kumar, Cupertino, CA (US);
Rajesh Raman, San Jose, CA (US);
Vinod Dashora, Fremont, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A network infrastructure element such as a router or switch performs brokering network user identity and credential information. An application or administrative user can declare a policy for user identity information extraction, authentication and authorization. Based on the policy, the network element extracts user identity information or credentials from a transport-layer message header, application-layer message header, and message body. Based on the policy, the network element performs one or more authentication or authorization operations with the user identity information or credentials. As a result, a network element can broker identity information among incompatible applications and perform identity operations for the applications.