SELECTIVELY ENABLING VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK CONNECTIONS BASED ON THE RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGY TYPE OF THE BEARER

Abstract: one example of a method performed by a processing system of a user endpoint device in a communications network includes detecting a network traffic flow to be securely delivered from the user endpoint device to a destination in the communications network, determining that a bearer that the user endpoint device is currently utilizing to connect to the communications network is a cellular bearer, and controlling, in response to the determining, a virtual private network client of the user endpoint device to route the network traffic flow to the destination over existing network interfaces in a manner that bypasses a virtual private network connection of the user endpoint device.

Inventor(s): Richard Zaffino, Ronak Shah

CPC Classification: H04L63/0272 ({Virtual private networks})

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