US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Oct. 7 for "Network security enforcement using flexible client grouping at the control plane and data plane" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,887, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Network security enforcement using flexible client grouping at the control plane and data plane" was invented by Santhana Krishnan Narayanan (Bangalore, India) and Raghunandan Prabhakar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for customized grouping of end user devices using a new group identifier tag (GIT) in addition to role-based access (e.g., administrator or guest) and device identifier access (e.g., IP or MAC address). Two components may be implemented at a network access device, including ...