Symantec Corporation

Nortonlifelock Inc.

Blue Coat Systems, Inc.

Chris Ciborowski

Qing Li

Min Hao Chen

Wenjing Wang

Haibiao Fan

Sacheen Kamath

The disclosed computer-implemented method for enhancing user privacy may include (i) intercepting, by a privacy-protecting network proxy, network traffic between a client device and a server device, the client device being protected by a network-based privacy solution that inhibits browser fingerprinting through the privacy-protecting network proxy, (ii) detecting, at the privacy-protecting network proxy, that the network traffic indicates an attempt by a browser fingerprinting service to perform browser fingerprinting on the client device, and (iii) modifying, at the privacy-protecting network proxy based on the detecting of the attempt to perform browser fingerprinting, the intercepted network traffic such that browser fingerprinting performed by the browser fingerprinting service is at least partially inhibited. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Systems and methods for enhancing user privacy

In certain embodiments, a method comprises forming a cluster of peered network devices comprising a plurality of three or more peered network devices and a plurality of control information connections between pairs of the peered network devices. The method further comprises classifying a connection by associating the connection with an application, wherein a first peered network device associated with the cluster classifies the connection based at least in part on sequential payload packets associated with the connection, at least some of which the first device receives from other peered network devices associated with the cluster. The method also comprises sending control information over one of the control information connections between the first peered network device and a second peered network device associated with the cluster, wherein the control information comprises information regarding the classification of the connection.

Network device clusters

A proxy apparatus includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executed by the processor to determine whether a received packet has a corresponding application proxy and, if so, apply application proxy processing optimizations to the packet plus overlay network optimizations to the packet. Wherein the application proxy processing optimizations include header reduction for header fields that remain static from transmission to transmission.

System and method for implementing traffic optimization for overlay networks

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

Chris Ciborowski