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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2017
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Junaid Islam, San Jose, CA (US);
Brent Bilger, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Ted Schroeder, Saratoga, CA (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and systems for providing secure access to network resources. In one aspect, a method is performed at a trust broker system. The method includes: (1) receiving, from a client system, a request to access network applications and resources hosted by a server system; (2) identifying a domain providing the requested network applications and resources; (3) determining whether the client system is authorized to access the domain; (4) identifying a particular server containing the domain; (5) identifying a proxy server assigned to the particular server; and (6) in accordance with a determination that the client system is authorized to access the domain: (a) transmitting an identification value for the client system to the identified proxy server; and (b) after transmitting the identification value to the identified proxy server, transmitting, to the client system, contact information for connecting to the identified proxy server.