Patent ID: 11916882
Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A firewall device comprising:
memory including processor executable instructions for controlling the firewall device, said firewall device being a router, said firewall device being in a network; and
a processor configured to execute the processor executable instructions stored in memory and control the firewall device to:
pass network traffic corresponding to at least a first device without applying firewall rules to the traffic corresponding to the first device as part of the first device communicating over a network with at least one device outside a first customer premises;
monitor, at the firewall device, network traffic through the firewall device corresponding to the first device communicating over the network with at least one device outside the first customer premises without subjecting said traffic corresponding to the first device to rules in a firewall template for a period of time;
analyze, prior to applying firewall rules at the firewall device to traffic corresponding to the first device communicating over the network with at least one device outside the first customer premises, the network traffic corresponding to the first device passing through the firewall device, to identify a device type of the first device, said analyzing identifying the first device as a first type device; and
apply, at the firewall device, a first rule in a firewall template applicable to devices of the first type, said applying the first rule including applying the first rule to traffic corresponding to the first device when the first device attempts to send or receive traffic via the firewall device, said applying of the first rule following identifying the first device as a device of the first type based on traffic passed through the firewall device.