Application session management in networking devices
US7792975B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 12, 2007 |
| Grant date | Sep 7, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 6, 2027 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L69/329
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A networking device comprises an interface configured to receive and transmit data from and to a network; policy data configured to specify, for one or more application-layer messages, a session key that uniquely identifies an application session associated with the application-layer messages; logic encoded in one or more media for execution and when executed operable to receive a particular application-layer message through the interface, generate a particular session key for the particular application-layer message based on the policy data, and provide the particular session key to a message processing function.
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