Patent ID: 11909771
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. One or more tangible non-transitory computer-readable mediums encoded with instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
store, at a Domain Name System (DNS) device, data indicative of a role associated with a user device and data indicative of a policy setting a level of access of the user device to a responding device, wherein the data indicative of the role associated with the user device indicates a security level for the user device within an enterprise network environment;
obtain, from the user device at the DNS device, a request for an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the responding device;
determine, at the DNS device based upon the request and the data indicative of the role associated with the user device, that the policy applies to the request; and
apply the policy in response to determining that the policy applies to the request by providing, to the user device, data indicative of an IP address of a notification server to redirect the user device from the responding device to the notification server to provide the user device with an indication of application of the policy by the DNS device.