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US 2012/0233686 A1Published application
Network access firewall
AssigneeSeagate Technology LLC
InventorsJames A. Savage, Tim Bucher
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Abstract
The communications management systems manage access to a local area network or network content by external users, applications, and devices. The systems and methods are implemented on a network appliance to manage content within the network and facilitate content transmission through a firewall that separates the network from a larger networking environment, such as the World Wide Web.
Claims21
1-25. (canceled)
A method, comprising:
- comparing, at a network appliance comprising a firewall, an access requestor identity with one or more rules and/or one or more data structures stored on the network appliance;
- and
- determining, based upon the comparison, a permissible scope of access that the access requestor may be granted to various devices, applications, and databases on a network.
A method, comprising:
- comparing, at a network appliance comprising a firewall, an access requestor identity with one or more rules and/or one or more data structures stored on the network appliance;
- and
- determining, based upon a comparison, a permissible scope of access that the access requestor may be granted to various devices, applications, and databases on a network.
A system, comprising:
- a network appliance comprising a firewall, the network appliance configured to store one or more rules and/or one or more data structures specifying permissible scope of access for an access requestor to various devices, applications, and databases on a network;
- and
- an authenticating apparatus configured to compare an access requestor identity with the one or more rules and/or the one or more data structures stored on the network appliance and to determine based on the comparison, a permissible scope of access that the access requestor may be granted to various devices, applications, and databases on the network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.