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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2006
Brian Denny Williams, Mountain View, CA (US);
Albert L. Papp, Iii, Mountain View, CA (US);
Brian Denny Williams, Mountain View, CA (US);
Albert L. Papp, III, Mountain View, CA (US);
Blue Coat Systems, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A graphical user interface for configuring policies which manage traffic over a computer network. An implementation of the invention disassociates the definition of traffic policies from their logical and physical application to the network and its constituent devices. One implementation allows a network manager to define traffic policies through user inputs such as dragging and dropping rule templates with a mouse. An implementation further allows such policies to be logically applied to parts and subparts of the computer network through the dragging and dropping of the policies and defined network endpoints. One implementation of the invention then provides multiple views of these policies as applied.