US 12,464,356 B2
Systems and methods for multiple point SASE access control
Michael Xie, Palo Alto, CA (US); Yong Zhang, Belmont, CA (US); and Reuben Stanley Wilson, Oswestry (GB)
Assigned to Fortinet, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed by Fortinet, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 23, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/237,314.
Prior Publication US 2025/0071552 A1, Feb. 27, 2025
Int. Cl. H04W 12/08 (2021.01)
CPC H04W 12/08 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A wireless access point device, the device comprising:
a processing resource;
a non-transitory computer-readable medium, coupled to the processing resource, and having stored therein instructions that when executed by the processing resource cause the processing resource to:
upon determining that at least one other secured access service edge (SASE) processing capable device exists in a secure network, arbitrate with the at least one other SASE processing capable device to identify which of the wireless access point or the at least one other SASE processing capable device is selected to perform SASE processing;
upon determining that the wireless access point is the only SASE processing capable device in the secure network, identify the wireless access point as selected to perform SASE processing;
receive a network traffic; and
where the wireless access point is identified as selected to perform SASE processing, provide a subset of the network traffic to a SASE service provider for processing.