Using activities to manage multi-tenant firewall configuration
US10944722B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 29, 2016 |
| Grant date | Mar 9, 2021 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 24, 2038 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L63/20
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A novel method for managing firewall configuration of a software defined data center is provided. Such a firewall configuration is divided into multiple sections that each contains a set of firewall rules. Each tenant of the software defined data center has a corresponding set of sections in the firewall configuration. The method allows each tenant to independently access and update/manage its own corresponding set of sections. Multiple tenants or users are allowed to make changes to the firewall configuration simultaneously.
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