Patent ID: 7805757
Filing Date: 2010-09-28
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for controlling an attribute associated with a communication session in a data communication network, comprising the steps of: selecting at a first computing device one or more monitoring points and one or more firewall control points distributed in the data communication network, wherein the first computing device functionally serves as a centralized controller; monitoring at the first computing device the attribute associated with the communication session, wherein the first computing device monitors the attribute via one or more messages received from the one or more selected monitoring points; determining at the first computing device which computing devices in the data communication network are to be made aware of the monitored attribute, wherein at least one of the computing devices to be made aware of the monitored attribute comprises at least one of the one or more selected firewall control points; and sending a message from the first computing device to each computing device identified in the determining step, wherein the first computing device controls the at least one of the one or more selected firewall control points via the sent message.