Patent Document ID: 7809829
Application ID: 12259151
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method performed by a computer system for processing network traffic in a network, the method comprising: receiving, at a first computer system that communicates with the network, network traffic being sent from or destined to applications in communication with the network; receiving, at the first computer system, host information of a second computer system associated with at least a portion of the network traffic being sent from or destined to applications in communication with the network; analyzing, by the first computer system, the network traffic and the host information of the second computer system to identify at least one network flow within the network traffic, the network flow attributable to an application hosted by the second computer system; determining, by the first computer system, whether the at least one network flow attributable to an application hosted by the second computer system matches a network flow profile; and applying a policy to the at least one network flow attributable to an application hosted by the second computer system based on a determination that the network flow attributable to an application hosted by the second computer system matches the network flow profile.