Generating accounting data based on access control list entries

US7689485B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Cisco Technology, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Bhushan Mangesh Kanekar · Saratoga, US
• Venkateshwar Rao Pullela · San Jose, US
• Dileep K. Devireddy · San Jose, US
• Suresh Gurajapu · Santa Clara, US
• Gyaneshwar S. Saharia · Cupertino, US
• Atul Rawat · Santa Clara, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 29, 2003
• Grant date: Mar 30, 2010
• Expiry date: Aug 6, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q40/00
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, and other mechanisms are disclosed for generating accounting or other data based on that indicated in access control lists or other specifications, and typically using associative memory entries in one or more associative memory banks and/or memory devices. One implementation identifies an access control list including multiple access control list entries, with a subset of these access control list entries identifying accounting requests. Accounting mechanisms are associated with each of said access control list entries in the subset of access control list entries identifying accounting requests. An item is identified, and a corresponding accounting mechanism is updated. In one implementation, the item includes at least one autonomous system number. In one implementation, at least one of the accounting mechanisms is associated with at least two different access control list entries in the subset of access control list entries identifying accounting requests.