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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2017
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Qing Li, Cupertino, CA (US);
Mark Molnar, Austin, TX (US);
Joseph Chen, Manhattan Beach, CA (US);
Ron Frederick, Mountain View, CA (US);
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed computer-implemented method for network traffic routing to reduce service congestion at a server may include (1) receiving, by the computing device and from the cloud server, a traffic routing policy, (2) identifying, for a transaction and using at least one hook inserted into an operating system of the computing device, metadata describing a traffic type, (3) comparing the metadata with the traffic routing policy to determine the transaction is bypass traffic, and (4) sending the bypass traffic from the computing device to a destination other than the cloud server. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.