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US 12,592,893 B2Granted
Traffic identifiers for user device profiles
AssigneeCisco Technology, Inc.
InventorsSrinath Gundavelli, Shree N. Murthy, Matthew Stephen MacPherson, Ravi Kiran Guntupalli
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Abstract
In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: obtaining, at a network device from a user device, a request for a network session, the request including an indication of a user device profile; determining a traffic identifier to associate with the user device profile; binding the traffic identifier to a network policy to be applied to traffic associated with the user device profile; and providing the traffic identifier to the user device.
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A method comprising:
- obtaining, at a network device from a user device, a request for a network session, the request comprising an indication of at least a first user device profile and a second user device profile;
- determining a first traffic identifier to associate with the first user device profile and a second traffic identifier to associate with the second user device profile;
- binding the first traffic identifier to a first network policy to be applied to traffic associated with the first user device profile and binding the second traffic identifier to a second network policy to be applied to traffic associated with the second user device profile;
- and
- providing the first traffic identifier and the second traffic identifier to the user device.
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A method comprising:
- determining, at a user device, at least a first user device profile and a second user device profile;
- providing, to a network device, a request for a network session, the request comprising an indication of the first user device profile and the second user device profile;
- obtaining, from the network device, a response comprising a first traffic identifier bound to a first network policy for the first user device profile and a second traffic identifier bound to a second network policy for the second user device profile;
- and
- providing traffic over the network session for the first user device profile using the first traffic identifier and providing traffic for the second user device profile using the second traffic identifier.
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An apparatus comprising:
- one or more network interfaces;
- and
- one or more processors configured to perform operations on behalf of a network device, the operations comprising:
- obtaining, at the network device via the one or more network interfaces from a user device, a request for a network session, the request comprising an indication of at least a first user device profile and a second user device profile;
- determining a first traffic identifier to associate with the first user device profile and a second traffic identifier to associate with the second user device profile;
- binding the first traffic identifier to a first network policy to be applied to traffic associated with the first user device profile and binding the second traffic identifier to a second network policy to be applied to traffic associated with the second user device profile;
- and
- providing the first traffic identifier and the second traffic identifier to the user device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.