Patent ID: 9467455
Filing Date: 2016-10-11
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A computerized method comprising: by a computing device having one or more computer processors and a non-transitory computer readable storage device storing software instruction for execution by the one or more computer processors, obtaining information describing network traffic between a plurality of network devices within a network; determining, based on the information describing network traffic, a network topology of the network, wherein the network topology comprises a plurality of nodes each connected by an edge to one or more of the plurality of nodes, and wherein each node is associated with one or more network devices; associating indications of user access rights of users to respective nodes included in the network topology; and generating user interface data associated with the network topology; wherein an indication of user access rights of a particular user to a particular node comprises one or more of: information indicating that the particular user is permitted access to a space which includes at least one network device associated with the particular node, information indicating that a user account associated with the particular user can provide information to, or receive information from, at least one network device associated with the particular node, or information indicating that the user account associated with the particular user is permitted to access, or has actually attempted to access, at least one network device associated with the particular node.