Managing hierarchically organized subscriber profiles

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8374088
APP PUB NO 20120131215A1
SERIAL NO

13359960

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Methods are provided for managing hierarchically organized subscriber profiles. According to one embodiment, a connection for a subscriber is created based on a service context of the subscriber. A connection request is received from a subscriber of a network service delivery environment. The subscriber is associated with a first-level profile identifier indicative of a service context for the subscriber. One or more other subscribers can be associated with the first-level profile identifier. Lower-level profile identifiers are determined using the first-level profile identifier. The lower-level profile identifiers indicate a set of services that is available to the subscriber during the connection. Creating a connection for the subscriber that enables forwarding of packets based on the lower-level profile identifiers.

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FORTINET INC899 KIFER RD SUNNYVALE CA 94086

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Balay, Rajesh I San Jose, US 18 524
Desai, Sachin S Santa Clara, US 9 272
Khetawat, Amit K San Jose, US 9 272
Lemarchand, Francois Palaiseau, FR 11 470
Sargor, Chandramouli Sunnyvale, US 26 876

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