Microsoft technology licensing, llc (20250125956). COMMUNICATION POLICY ENFORCEMENT USING A SECURE PLAINTEXT LABEL
COMMUNICATION POLICY ENFORCEMENT USING A SECURE PLAINTEXT LABEL
Organization Name
microsoft technology licensing, llc
Inventor(s)
John Wan Yeung Sun of Redmond WA US
Ashok Nandoori of Frisco TX US
Adithya GUNDMI Gundmi Ramesh of Issaquah WA US
Abhishek Kumar Tiwari of Woodinville WA US
COMMUNICATION POLICY ENFORCEMENT USING A SECURE PLAINTEXT LABEL
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250125956 titled 'COMMUNICATION POLICY ENFORCEMENT USING A SECURE PLAINTEXT LABEL
Original Abstract Submitted
enforcement of a communication policy at a communication intermediary configured to communicate between a first communicating entity and a second communicating entity is provided. the communication intermediary includes packet routers. the enforcement includes identifying, by the packet routers of the communication intermediary, a secure plaintext label in each network packet of labeled network traffic received at the packet routers, evaluating whether the labeled network traffic satisfies an enforcement condition of the communication policy based on the secure plaintext label, instructing a network controller to operate on the labeled network traffic according to the communication policy, based on the operation of evaluating. each network packet includes encrypted content configured to be inaccessible by the packet routers. the secure plaintext label is accessible by the packet routers and includes a data encoding of a portion of the encrypted content.