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Patent No.:

US 11178111 B1

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Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2021

Filed:

Nov. 28, 2018
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Michael Joseph Santelia, Raleigh, NC (US);

Mauro Marzorati, Lutz, FL (US);

Seda Özses, Vienna, AT;

Juraj Nyíri, Ivanka pri Nitre, SK;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 21/10 (2013.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/0281 (2013.01); G06F 21/105 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01); H04L 67/28 (2013.01); G06F 2221/0773 (2013.01);
Abstract

A proxy is modified, to form an enhanced proxy, wherein the proxy is configured to inspect a header portion of a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (http) message, the modifying enabling the enhanced proxy to identify, at the enhanced proxy, a set of http header types in the http message received from a system. An external licensing authority (LA) is modified, to form an enhanced LA, wherein the enhanced LA is configured to verify a header parameter corresponding to a header type in the set of header types and return a license information corresponding to the system. The http message is modified by modifying the header portion in the http message according to the header type and a threshold corresponding to the header type, the header type and the threshold being identified in the license information. The modified http message is transmitted.


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