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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2015
Applicant:
Mcafee, Llc, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Geoffrey Howard Cooper, Palo Alto, CA (US);
David Frederick Diehl, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Vinay A. Mahadik, Milpitas, CA (US);
Ramnath Venugopalan, Webster, NY (US);
Assignee:
McAfee, LLC, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/803 (2013.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/0245 (2013.01); H04L 47/125 (2013.01); H04L 63/029 (2013.01); H04L 63/0254 (2013.01); H04L 63/20 (2013.01); H04L 67/146 (2013.01); H04L 63/0218 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes exchanging a session descriptor associated with a network connection and an application on a host, correlating the session descriptor with a network policy, and applying the network policy to the network connection. In alternative embodiments, the session descriptor may be exchanged through an out-of-band communication channel or an in-band communication channel.