Patent ID: 9596154
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by one or more devices, a particular data flow from a client device; determining, by the one or more devices and based on receiving the particular data flow, that the client device is not registered; providing, by the one or more devices and based on determining that the client device is not registered, a registration instruction for the client device; receiving, by the one or more devices and based on providing the registration instruction for the client device, attribute information from the client device, classifying, by the one or more devices, the client device based on the attribute information; and providing, by the one or more devices and based on classifying the client device, classification information to a network device to cause the network device to associate a particular policy set, of a plurality of policy sets, with the client device,