Information security – Access control or authentication – Network
Reexamination Certificate
2004-02-04
2010-06-08
Vu, Kimyen (Department: 2435)
Information security
Access control or authentication
Network
C713S154000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07735129
ABSTRACT:
A firewall apparatus including plural virtual firewalls, each virtual firewall including a dependent firewall policy, is disclosed. The firewall apparatus includes: a distribution management table for managing a user name and a virtual firewall ID; a part configured to receive authentication information for network connection from a user terminal, and hold a user name included in the authentication information; a part configured to report the authentication information to the authentication server; and a part configured to receive an authentication response from the authentication server, and hold a user ID, included in the authentication response, to be provided to the user terminal. The firewall apparatus registers the user ID in the distribution management table associating the user ID with the user name.
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Ichikawa Hiroyuki
Ikegawa Takashi
Ishikawa Tadashi
Nagata Kazuhiko
Oka Taisuke
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
Oblon, Spivak McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
Truvan Leynna T
Vu Kimyen
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