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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2018

Filed:

Dec. 11, 2015
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Benjamin M. Schultz, Bellevue, WA (US);

Aman Arneja, Bellevue, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/00 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/14 (2006.01); H04L 9/30 (2006.01); H04W 12/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/0272 (2013.01); H04L 9/00 (2013.01); H04L 9/06 (2013.01); H04L 9/14 (2013.01); H04L 9/30 (2013.01); H04L 63/029 (2013.01); H04L 63/04 (2013.01); H04L 63/0414 (2013.01); H04L 63/0428 (2013.01); H04L 63/0435 (2013.01); H04L 63/0442 (2013.01); H04L 63/0478 (2013.01); H04L 63/06 (2013.01); H04L 63/08 (2013.01); H04W 12/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aggregating traffic over multiple VPN connections is described. A first Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection is established between a client device and a first VPN server via a a first access network of the client device. A second Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection is established between the client device and a second VPN server via a second access network of the client device. Application traffic associated with a connection between an application server and a client application that corresponds to the client device is received. The application traffic associated with the connection between the application server and the client application is distributed between at least the first VPN connection and the second VPN connection.


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