US 11,811,830 B2
Displaying a firewall policy interface
Yelena Kozlova, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Amol Sood, Cupertino, CA (US); and Lyubov Nesteroff, Pleasant Hill, CA (US)
Assigned to Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed by Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/816,063.
Application 17/816,063 is a continuation of application No. 16/412,066, filed on May 14, 2019, granted, now 11,405,424.
Prior Publication US 2023/0026940 A1, Jan. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 9/40 (2022.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/0484 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 63/20 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/0484 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
displaying, by a device, one or more existing firewall policies and a firewall policy interface for generating a new firewall policy,
wherein the firewall policy interface is adjacent to the one or more existing firewall policies such that:
the firewall policy interface does not obstruct display of the one or more existing firewall policies, and
the display of the one or more existing firewall policies does not obstruct the firewall policy interface, and
wherein the firewall policy interface enables receipt of input to obtain one or more sources, a firewall action, and one or more destinations for the new firewall policy;
displaying, by the device and based on interaction with a plurality of input fields in the firewall policy interface, a plurality of candidate inputs,
wherein a subset of candidate inputs, of the plurality of candidate inputs, are associated with an input field, of the plurality of input fields, and
wherein the subset of candidate inputs are displayed within categories;
displaying, by the device and based on selection from the plurality of candidate inputs, the one or more sources, the firewall action, and the one or more destinations; and
displaying, by the device, the new firewall policy that includes the one or more sources, the firewall action, and the one or more destinations.