US 12,425,336 B2
Personal network software defined-wide area networks (SD-WANs) with attested permissions
Eric Voit, Bethesda, MD (US); Pascal Thubert, Roquefort-les-Pins (FR); and Pradeep Kumar Kathail, Los Altos, CA (US)
Assigned to Cisco Technology, Inc.
Filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 26, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/935,159.
Prior Publication US 2024/0106745 A1, Mar. 28, 2024
Int. Cl. H04L 45/00 (2022.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 45/745 (2022.01); H04L 45/76 (2022.01); H04W 12/71 (2021.01)
CPC H04L 45/54 (2013.01) [H04L 45/745 (2013.01); H04W 12/71 (2021.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
seeding, by a first one of a plurality of Personal Area Network (PAN) devices in a PAN, a routing table entry for an application that the first one of the plurality of PAN devices supports, wherein the routing table entry for the application includes at least one characteristic associated with an egress link between the first one of the plurality of PAN devices and a device outside of the PAN for data associated with the application to be sent, and wherein the at least one characteristics is acquired by the first one of the plurality of PAN devices to access a network with attested permission;
exchanging the routing table entry among the plurality of PAN devices in the PAN; and
routing, based on the exchanged routing table entry, the data associated with the application in the PAN through the first one of the plurality of PAN devices through the egress link to the device outside of the PAN.