Patent ID: 11949718
Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 11:
12. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the trusted path policy comprises one of:
a best trust policy, specifying that the trusted communication path is the one of a plurality of candidate trusted communication paths having a highest aggregated trusted path score; and
a minimum trust policy, specifying that the trusted communication path is any of the plurality of candidate trusted communication paths having no less than a minimum aggregated trusted path score;
a minimum trusted element trust policy, specifying that the trusted communication path is any of the plurality of candidate trusted communication paths having a trusted network element having no less than a minimum trust confidence score; and
a custom trust policy, specifying that the trusted communication path is any of the plurality of candidate trusted communications paths having in which all of the trusted elements have a desired combination of the security parameters.