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US 2008/0189764 A1Published application
Dynamic network access control method and apparatus
Assignee3Com Corporation
InventorsKaj Gronholm, Michael H. Jamison, William A. Lamkin, Ian S. Nelson, Roger Lynn Haney, Seth Goldhammer
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Abstract
A method of network access control identifies, in response to a request by an end node to access a network, attributes of the end node and of a device receiving the request. Based on the attributes, a network access control implementation is selected from a plurality of network access control implementations to apply to the request.
Claims6
1) A method of network access control comprising:
- identifying, in response to a request by an end node to access a network, attributes of the end node and of a device receiving the request;
- selecting, based on the attributes, a network access control implementation from a plurality of network access control implementations to apply to the request.
6) A method of network access control comprising:
- identifying attributes of devices in a network;
- selecting, based on the attributes, a network access control implementation from a plurality of network access control implementations to apply to a request by an end node to access the network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.