Cisco technology, inc. (20250071083). ANONYMIZING CLIENT-SIDE ADDRESSES
ANONYMIZING CLIENT-SIDE ADDRESSES
Organization Name
Inventor(s)
Pascal Thubert of Roquefort les Pins (FR)
Eric A. Voit of Bethesda MD (US)
Eric Levy-abegnoli of Valbonne (FR)
ANONYMIZING CLIENT-SIDE ADDRESSES
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250071083 titled 'ANONYMIZING CLIENT-SIDE ADDRESSES
Original Abstract Submitted
techniques for using prefix address translation (pat), mobile internet protocol (mip), and/or other techniques to anonymize server-side addresses in data communications. rather than allowing a server and/or endpoint have visibility of a client ip address of a client device accessing the server and/or endpoint, a virtual network service instead returns a pat ip address that is mapped to the client device and/or the endpoint device. in this way, ip addresses of clients devices are obfuscated by the virtual network. the client device may then communicate data packets to the server and/or endpoint using the pat ip address as the source address, and the virtual network service that works in conjunction with the server and/or endpoints can convert the pat ip address to the actual ip address of the client for return packets using pat and forward the return packet onto the client device.