Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Local interception of traffic to a remote forward proxy
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Application No.: US16058610Application Date: 2018-08-08
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Publication No.: US10938786B2Publication Date: 2021-03-02
- Inventor: Eugene Lapidous , Sean Ghiocel , Maxim Molchanov , Eduardo Panisset
- Applicant: AnchorFree Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Redwood City
- Assignee: AnchorFree Inc.
- Current Assignee: AnchorFree Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Redwood City
- Agency: Stevens Law Group
- Agent David R. Stevens
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; H04L29/08 ; H04L12/46 ; H04L29/12 ; G06F9/54 ; H04L12/741

Abstract:
An application using a VPN is programmed to transmit proxy traffic to a remote proxy server. Traffic to the proxy server is intercepted, shifted to user space, and processed according to one or more options. Traffic may be terminated by a local proxy that resolves domain names in traffic and requests referenced content. Intercepted traffic may include plain text data in headers that is encrypted before forwarding to a different proxy server. Traffic may be evaluated, such as a User Agent string in order to determine routing choices, such as blocking, throttling, local termination, transmitting through a VPN, or other options. Multiple VPNs may operate on the same user computer and proxy traffic may be intercepted and processed by transmitting it through a VPN, bypassing all VPNs, or routing through a different VPN.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190173839A1 Local Interception Of Traffic To A Remote Forward Proxy Public/Granted day:2019-06-06
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