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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2017
Finjan Mobile, Inc., East Palo Alto, CA (US);
Scot Robinson, Rolling Hills Estates, CA (US);
Jules Panopoulos, Mountain View, CA (US);
Patrick Conlin, Newport Beach, CA (US);
Sang Hui Michael Kim, San Jose, CA (US);
Julie Mar-Spinola, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael Godlewski, San Francisco, CA (US);
Geoffrey House, San Francisco, CA (US);
Winnie Tong, San Francisco, CA (US);
Rudolph Mutter, Millbrae, CA (US);
Bay Lee Feore, San Francisco, CA (US);
Timothy Shipman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Anthony Scherba, San Francisco, CA (US);
Lee McDole, Oakland, CA (US);
Alexander Lin Kremer, San Mateo, CA (US);
Finjan Mobile, Inc., East Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A mobile web browser embedded in a smartphone operative to open a secure and private session with a web server on the Internet via one or more cell towers, using a mobile IP address of the smartphone, the mobile web browser including a VPN connector operative to connect the smartphone to a secure VPN server and to establish a virtual IP address for the smartphone, the virtual IP address corresponding to the location of the VPN server, a switch operable to change a current IP address of the smartphone used by the mobile web browser from a non-VPN mobile IP address to the virtual IP address of the VPN server, in a seamless manner without interrupting a current session with a web server, a URL content scanner causing a URL of a web page to be scanned for potential malware, a URL blocker, a tracker scanner and a tracker blocker.