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Patent No.:

US 11363022 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2022

Filed:

Apr. 27, 2020

Use of dhcp for location information of a user device for automatic traffic forwarding

Applicant:

Zscaler, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Sreedhar Pampati, San Jose, CA (US);

David Creedy, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Vikas Mahajan, Ludhiana, IN;

Assignee:

Zscaler, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorneys:

Clements Bernard Baratta

Lawrence A. Baratta, Jr.

Ryan Odessa

Primary Examiner:

Harris C Wang

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/1001 (2022.01); H04L 67/56 (2022.01); H04L 67/51 (2022.01); H04L 67/125 (2022.01); H04L 67/10 (2022.01); H04L 67/02 (2022.01); H04L 67/564 (2022.01); H04L 67/563 (2022.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 69/16 (2022.01); H04L 61/4511 (2022.01); H04L 101/663 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/0884 (2013.01); H04L 61/1511 (2013.01); H04L 63/0272 (2013.01); H04L 63/0281 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01); H04L 67/1002 (2013.01); H04L 67/125 (2013.01); H04L 67/16 (2013.01); H04L 67/28 (2013.01); H04L 67/2814 (2013.01); H04L 67/2819 (2013.01); H04L 69/162 (2013.01); H04L 61/6063 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods implemented by an application executed on a user device for service discovery and connectivity include, responsive to joining a new network, performing a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) operation to obtain network configuration parameters; receiving a DHCP message in response with the network configuration parameters; via an application executed on the user device for service discovery and connectivity analyzing data in the DHCP message to determine one or more forwarding profiles on the new network, wherein the one or more forwarding profiles are based on a location or trust of the new network; and automatically installing the determined one or more forwarding profiles.

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