SCOPE DISCOVERY AND POLICY GENERATION IN AN ENTERPRISE NETWORK

Patent №

US 11,627,166

Granted

2023-04-11

Filed 2020

Owner

CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.

Lab

AI components

2

kr · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

17063864

The present disclosure relates to methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media for discovering policy scopes within an enterprise network and managing network policies for discovered policy scopes. In one aspect, a method includes identifying one or more communities of devices in an enterprise network; defining, from the one or more communities of devices, policy scopes in the enterprise network; generating a hierarchical representation of the policy scopes; identifying, based on the hierarchical representation of the policy scopes, one or more policies governing traffic flow between devices associated with each of the policy scopes; and managing application of the one or more policies at the devices.

Knowledge representationPlanningH04L 47/2483H04L 41/0894H04L 41/0895H04L 41/14H04L 41/40H04L 43/08H04L 43/20H04L 63/20+5 more

AI classification

Knowledge representation0.99
Planning0.93
Natural language0.50
Machine learning0.05
AI hardware0.00
Vision0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.

assignment · 539830760

Assignors

ZENG, WEIFEI, AVERINENI, SAI ANKITH, MADANI, OMID, MACH, PAUL, DOSHI, YASH VIPUL, EVURU, SASIDHAR, TASNIM, SAYEED MOHAMMED, LADIWALA, SAMEER SALIM MAHOMED ALI, VANGETI, CHAKRADHAR REDDY, NGUYEN, THANH NHAN, MALHOTRA, VARUN, GANDHAM, SHASHIDHAR, +3 more

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