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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2017
Sonicwall Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Raj Raman, San Jose, CA (US);
Aleksandr Dubrovsky, Los Altos, CA (US);
SONICWALL INC., Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus consistent with the present disclosure may prevent a computer process from failing when a firewall located between a client device and a server identifies that a process at the firewall should be bypassed using fingerprint information associated with a connection attempt. When fingerprint information stored at a firewall matches previously received fingerprint information, the firewall may allow processes typically performed at the firewall to be bypassed, thereby, allowing communications to pass between the client device and the server without inspection. When that fingerprint information does not match previously received fingerprint information, the firewall may perform a process that causes the client device to fail the first connection attempt. Because of this, methods consistent with the present disclosure may allow communications from an application program to be passed through a firewall without relying on an ever growing list of trusted application programs.