Patent ID: 9047460
Filing Date: 2015-06-02
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method performed by a server end station communicatively coupled with a single network device that is communicatively coupled with one or more end stations, wherein the server end station stores a plurality of user records, the method comprising: authenticating, using an authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) protocol, a user based upon identifying one of the plurality of user records that identifies the user, wherein the user utilizes an end station of the one or more end stations, wherein each of the plurality of user records comprises information indicating which of a plurality of virtual routers the end station of the user is to be currently coupled to, wherein the single network device comprises the plurality of virtual routers that share a set of physical resources of the single network device, and wherein each of the plurality of virtual routers provides access to a different one of a plurality of virtual private networks; and causing the single network device to communicatively couple the end station of the user with one of the plurality of virtual routers selected based on the information from the user record identified during said authenticating.