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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2013
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Benjamin A. Chambers, San Francisco, CA (US);
Clifford A. Frey, San Francisco, CA (US);
Raluca Musaloiu-Elefteri, San Francisco, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A Web-based management server includes an ACP manager to manage access control rules (ACRs) and access control policies (ACPs). The ACRs and ACPs are configured by an administrator via a Web interface of the management server. The ACP manager is to transmit over the Internet the ACPs and the ACRs to network access devices (NADs) to allow the NADs to apply the ACPs to their respective network client devices (NCDs) based on the ACRs, where the NADs are managed by the management server over the Internet. Each of the NADs operates as one of a router, a network switch, and an access point. The ACP manager is to periodically update the ACRs and ACPs stored in the NADs, including receiving an update from one NAD and broadcasting the update to a remainder of the NADs.