Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Randomizing server-side addresses
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Application No.: US18104603Application Date: 2023-02-01
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Publication No.: US12034707B2Publication Date: 2024-07-09
- Inventor: David A. Maluf , Srinath Gundavelli , Pascal Thubert , Pradeep Kumar Kathail , Eric Levy-Abegnoli , Eric Voit , Ali Sajassi
- Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Lee & Hayes, P.C.
- Main IPC: H04L9/40
- IPC: H04L9/40 ; H04L61/2521 ; H04L61/2539 ; H04L61/4511

Abstract:
Techniques for using Network Address Translation (NAT), Mobile Internet Protocol (MIP), and/or other techniques in conjunction with Domain Name System (DNS) to anonymize server-side addresses in data communications. Rather than having DNS provide a client device with an IP address of an endpoint device, such as a server, the DNS instead returns a random IP address that is mapped to the client device and the endpoint device. In this way, IP addresses of servers are obfuscated by a random IP address that cannot be used to identify the endpoint device or service. The client device may then communicate data packets to the server using the random IP address as the destination address, and a gateway that works in conjunction with DNS can convert the random IP address to the actual IP address of the server using NAT and forward the data packet onto the server.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230179579A1 RANDOMIZING SERVER-SIDE ADDRESSES Public/Granted day:2023-06-08
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