Patent ID: 11909767
Assignee: FORESCOUT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
configuring, by a processing device, a port forwarding policy on a first device based on network session information associated with the first device, wherein the network session information comprises a first address identifying the first device and a second address identifying a second device, wherein the second device is configured to communicate through the first device;
generating, by the processing device, an identifier associated with the second device based on a combination of the first address and the second address of the network session information;
scanning, by the processing device, the second device based on the identifier of the second device and the port forwarding policy, including sending, by the processing device, a scan request to the first device, wherein the first device forwards the scan request to the second device according to the port forwarding policy; and
storing, by the processing device, the results of the scanning.