US Patent Issued to DELL PRODUCTS on July 15 for "Access enforcement through authentication verification entity (AVE)" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,119, issued on July 15, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Access enforcement through authentication verification entity (AVE)" was invented by Claudio Desanti (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and David Black (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Two main methods exist today to enforce access control in a network fabric: soft zoning and hard zoning. However, each of these approaches has some significant drawbacks. Accordingly, presented herein are new and improved systems and methods to perform access control enforcement, which is stronger than soft zoning, and does not need to interact with the fabric switches, as req...