Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Labeling network flows according to source applications
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Application No.: US15136687Application Date: 2016-04-22
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Publication No.: US11277416B2Publication Date: 2022-03-15
- Inventor: Kenneth D. Ray , Andrew J. Thomas , Mark David Harris
- Applicant: Sophos Limited
- Applicant Address: GB Abingdon
- Assignee: Sophos Limited
- Current Assignee: Sophos Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB Abingdon
- Agency: Strategic Patents, P.C.
- Main IPC: H04L29/02
- IPC: H04L29/02 ; G06F21/64 ; H04L29/06 ; H04L12/701 ; H04L9/32

Abstract:
An enterprise security system is improved by instrumenting endpoints to explicitly label network flows according to sources of network traffic. When a network message from an endpoint is received at a gateway, firewall, or other network device/service, the network message may be examined to determine the application on the endpoint that originated the request, and this source information may be used to control routing or other handling of the network message.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170310686A1 LABELING NETWORK FLOWS ACCORDING TO SOURCE APPLICATIONS Public/Granted day:2017-10-26
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