Patent ID: 9641628
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: snooping a received packet to determine whether a source entity of the received packet is known and to determine whether the received packet can be handled by a first processing layer based on a rule set in the first processing layer and configured to be accessed by the first processing layer; classifying the packet at the first processing layer when the packet can be handled by the first processing layer; forwarding the packet to a second processing layer when the packet cannot be handled by the first processing layer; identifying a source type of the received packet at the first processing layer; determining, at the second processing layer, a predefined processing rule applicable to the received packet based on the source type of the received packet and source information of the received packet; applying the determined rule to logically attach the source entity of the received packet with one or more network resources; updating the rule set in the first processing layer to include the determined processing rule for the received packet; and processing the received packet in the first processing layer according to the updated first rule set.