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

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a policy manager, a first accounting update for a client device from a network authentication server, wherein the policy manager and the network authentication server are associated with a network, and the client device has an existing user session with the network; and
responsive to the first accounting update, the policy manager to:
determine authorization information about the user session and update a configured Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) attribute of a distributed data store based on the authorization information; and
send, as a proxy for a proxy target device external to the network, a second accounting update for the client device to the proxy target device, wherein the second accounting update comprises the authorization information and information from the first accounting update, wherein the proxy target device does not have access to the distributed data store.