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Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2022

Filed:

Jul. 12, 2019
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Jeb R. Linton, Manassas, VA (US);

Naeem Altaf, Round Rock, TX (US);

Sanjay Nadhavajhala, Cupertino, CA (US);

Satya Sreenivas, Los Alamos, NM (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 41/12 (2022.01); H04L 9/30 (2006.01); H04L 67/12 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/08 (2013.01); H04L 9/30 (2013.01); H04L 41/12 (2013.01); H04L 67/12 (2013.01);
Abstract

Managing anonymous network connections. In one aspect managing anonymous network connections by providing anonymous authentication credentials to a plurality of devices in a hierarchical network, registering a first set of devices at a first data aggregator, determining that the first set of devices at the first aggregator numbers less than a first threshold value, registering the first set of devices with a second aggregator upstream in the hierarchy from the first aggregator, causing data from the first set of devices to be received at the second aggregator.


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