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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2014
Filed:
May. 24, 2013
At&t Intellectual Property Ii, Lp, Reno, NV (US);
William A. Aiello, Vancouver, CA;
Charles Robert Kalmanek, Jr., Short Hills, NJ (US);
William J. Leighton, III, Scotch Plains, NJ (US);
Patrick McDaniel, State College, PA (US);
Subhabrata Sen, New Providence, NJ (US);
Oliver Spatscheck, Randolph, NJ (US);
Jacobus E. Van Der Merwe, New Providence, NJ (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
An application provisioning device may be used to manage a profile of a host and provide data corresponding to a selected application for installation at a host. A reverse firewall may use the profile of the host to determine whether to allow or block particular network communication from an application running on the host. An indication of a selected application may be received at the application provisioning device. Configuration information may also be received at the application provisioning device. The application provisioning server may request an update to the profile of a host and transmit such a request. The profile may be updated to reflect the configuration information and/or information of the selected application. Data corresponding to the selected application may be updated and transmitted to a host computer, where it may be installed. Therefore, the installed application running on the host may operate without being prematurely blocked by the reverse firewall.