ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,644, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Enforcing conditional access to network services based on authorization statuses associated with network flows" was invented by Vincent E. Parla (North Hampton, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for enforcing conditional access to network services. In an example method, a first computing device detects a second device operating in a per-flow authorization mode. The first device receives a first request from a second computing device to communicate with a third computing device using a first network flow and determ...