Patent ID: 11870753
Assignee: ADAPTIV NETWORKS INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A system for distributed firewall management in a network comprising:
at least one processor and at least one non-transitory memory comprising program code, wherein the at least one non-transitory memory and the program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the system to perform operations configured to:
connect at least one client site of a plurality of client sites to at least one other client site of the plurality of client sites, wherein a respective client site network component implemented at each at least one client site aggregates one or more diverse network connections of the at least one client site to configure a respective aggregated connection that has increased throughput, and wherein a respective firewall is integrated with each client site network component for managing the respective aggregated connection of the client site network component;
provide, by each firewall, rules, security controls, or policy controls for the respective aggregated connection of the respective client site network component which the firewall is integrated with; and
manage, by a centralized firewall network controller, the rules, the security controls, and the policy controls for each respective firewall, for management of the respective aggregated connection by the rules, the security controls, and the policy controls provided by the respective firewall.