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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2021
Mobile Sonic, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Joseph T. Savarese, Edmonds, WA (US);
Steven Heckt, Edmonds, WA (US);
Michael E. Bryant, Bellevue, WA (US);
Eric C. McNeill, Seattle, WA (US);
Carter Smith, Redmond, WA (US);
Elizabeth Kihslinger, De Forest, WI (US);
Thomas Gunther Helms, Kent, WA (US);
Camilla Keenan-Koch, Seattle, WA (US);
Joseph G. Souza, Seattle, WA (US);
Paul Hoover, Seattle, WA (US);
S. Aaron Stavens, Auburn, WA (US);
Christian E. Hofstaedter, Lansdale, PA (US);
Jonathan Scott, Seattle, WA (US);
Erik Olson, Seattle, WA (US);
James Scott Simpkins, Sammamish, WA (US);
Stephen Gregory Fallin, Bothell, WA (US);
John Harvey Hillock, Bellevue, WA (US);
Eivind Naess, Auburn, WA (US);
Michael Lee Snyder, Seattle, WA (US);
David Michael Mirly, Seattle, WA (US);
Marius Lee, Redmond, WA (US);
Glenn Patrick Aranas, Renton, WA (US);
Norman C. Hamer, Shoreline, WA (US);
Tridib Dutta, Snoqualmie, WA (US);
Andrew James Hoover, Seattle, WA (US);
Thomas A. Sweet, Snohomish, WA (US);
Mark Anacker, Lake Forest Park, WA (US);
An Phan, Tacoma, WA (US);
MOBILE SONIC, INC., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Mobile management method and system. The method includes receiving from an application on a client a DNS query for a host name; retrieving reputation data associated with the host name from a local cache on the client; determining whether a policy associated with the host name and the reputation data associated with the host name exists; and one of: sending network flows one of: through a VPN tunnel to a server or out a local proxy on the client to a private or public network; or blocking the network flow based on the determined policy for the host name.