Patent ID: 11871214
Assignee: AERIS COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 19:
20. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing executable instructions for automated traffic flow control that, in response to execution, cause a computer to perform operations comprising:
receiving device information for one or more devices;
receiving domain name information for one or more domain names that the one or more devices are allowed to access, denied to access or a combination thereof;
associating each of the one or more domain names with one or more internet protocol (IP) addresses;
monitoring each of the one or more domains for change in the one or more IP addresses for that domain, wherein the monitoring each of the one or more domains for change in the one or more IP addresses for that domain includes determining if there has been a change in the one or more IP addresses associated with that domain name using domain name system (DNS) look up and automatically updating the one or more IP addresses in the service profile for the one or more devices; and
updating the one or more IP addresses of the domain name if any change in the one or more IP addresses for that domain is found,
wherein:
a policy and charging rules function (PCRF) notifies a policy and charging rule enforcement function (PCEF) of the change in the service profile for the one or more devices in the PCRF,
a traffic control function (TCF) policy and charging control (PCC) database notifies a traffic control function (TCF) packet processor of the change in the service profile for the one or more devices in the TCF packet processor, or
a firewall controller notifies the firewall of the change in the service profile for the one or more devices in the firewall processor, when there is a change to the IP addresses of the domain name in the database.