Patent ID: 8484385
Filing Date: 2013-07-09
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a network device, one or more packets from a client device; determining, by the network device and using particular information in the one or more packets, whether a first data structure stores an entry that includes information matching the particular information, identifying, by the network device and in the entry, information identifying a particular application being executed by the client device when the first data structure stores the entry that includes the information matching the particular information; comparing, by the network device, the particular information to information in a second data structure to identify the particular application being executed by the client device when the first data structure does not store the entry that includes the information matching the particular information, applying, by the network device, an access policy to determine whether to grant, to the client device, access to a resource in a network associated with the network device,