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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2015
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
James P. Wood, Gilroy, CA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Described herein are systems and methods utilizing application-specific access to a virtual private network ('VPN'). A method may comprise receiving, from an application executing on a device, a request for a network data flow to a private network, comparing identification information associated with the application against a set of rules stored on a memory of the device, wherein the set of rules identifies conditions for the application to be authorized to access the private network, and establishing a connection for the network data flow upon the identification information satisfying the conditions for the application to access the private network.