Cisco Technology, Inc.

Gregory John Wilkins

Chen Yehezkel Burshan

Michael Manning

Nathan Sowatskey

Ritesh Kumar

Ian Michael Cotton

A method is disclosed for determining attributes of a client connection configured for use with a telecommunications network; comparing determined attributes with location definition information stored in a configuration file; determining at least one user-defined location in the location definition information associated with the client connection based on the comparison; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.

Method and apparatus for managing proxy and non-proxy requests in a telecommunications network

A method is disclosed for determining a location of a client session in a telecommunications network by comparing attributes of the client session connection to location definition information stored in a configuration file. A method of handling requests from proxy and non-proxy client connections in a telecommunications network by redirecting requests from unauthenticated proxy clients to a transparent proxy port on a captive portal such that the captive portal proxies the requests is also disclosed. The request may be directed to a service, such as a destination IP address and optional port number. A method for a proxy server to identify an edge session through an out-of-band request containing proxy metadata to a web portal for secure (HTTPS) requests is also disclosed. The edge session is identified for the web portal through a hostkey determined by the proxy server.

Method and apparatus for managing proxy and non-proxy requests in telecommunications network

A method of limiting domain name server (DNS) transaction bandwidth comprises intercepting one or more DNS packets, examining said one or more packets for the presence of a suspect transaction criterion and, if said suspect transaction criterion is present, implementing a transaction bandwidth limitation action.

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Gregory John Wilkins