Patent ID: 11916966
Assignee: ADAPTIV NETWORKS INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 2:
3. A method for access policy management of a plurality of entities communicating over a network comprising:
managing one or more encrypted tunnels between entities and one or more gateways;
authenticating and registering said entities by a server;
assigning, by said server, a private IP address to each authenticated entities and propagating said private IP address and associated access policies to each of said one or more gateways; and
processing and routing, by each of said one or more gateways, a plurality of packets received from each entity and enforcing one or more access policies, using a data plane module coupled to the gateway, associated with the private IP address assigned to the authenticated entity; and
managing, by said one or more gateways, routes based on the private IP addresses of each authenticated entities and routing packets to reach one or more remote entities via one or more tunnels to one or more other gateways creating a network overlay between authenticated entities.