Patent ID: 11968238
Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 11:
12. A network infrastructure device comprising:
a network interface communicatively coupled to a first network;
a processing device communicatively coupled to the network interface; and
a non-transitory storage medium readable by the processing device and storing instructions, that when executed by the processing device, cause the network infrastructure device to provide functionality of a policy management (PM) node of a plurality of PM nodes of a PM cluster, and to:
receive a first accounting update for a client device from a network authentication server, wherein the network authentication server is associated with the first network, and the first accounting update comprises first information about an existing session corresponding to the client device;
responsive to the first accounting update, determine second information comprising an authorization attribute associated with the client device and update a configured Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) attribute of a cache based on the authorization attribute;
augment the first information with the second information to provide a second accounting update; and
responsive to the first accounting update, send the second accounting update to a device that is external to the first network, wherein the device does not have access to the cache.